cvs commit: ports UPDATING

[Beech Rintoul]

On Wednesday 31 October 2007, Kris Kennaway said:
> Boris Samorodov wrote:
> > On Wed, 31 Oct 2007 03:36:00 +0000 (UTC) Beech Rintoul wrote:
> >>  20071030:
> >> +  AFFECTS: users of net/skype
> >> +  AUTHOR: beech at FreeBSD.org
> >> +
> >> +  The skype port has been upgraded to version 1.4.0.118. This
> >> requires a sysctl +  change to run. After upgrading, please do:
> >> "sysctl compat.linux.osrelease=2.6" +  from a terminal. Also
> >> add: "compat.linux.osrelease=2.6" to your
> >
> > The default (recommended and supported) linux.osrelease for now
> > is 2.4.2. I'd say that the best way here is to have a legacy
> > skype port as well (for default 2.4.2 linux.osrelease).
>
> Yeah, we are not ready for 2.6 so I do not think we should be
> upgrading important ports like this one to require it.
>
> Kris

Agreed. I just talked to linimon and I'm going to revert the main 
version back to skype12. And as per the same conversation I would 
like to pull skype-devel out of the attic and move this version there 
(if portmgr agrees). There are quite a few people already using it.

Beech

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