Skype-1.4 on 6.2 (and 7.0-BETA1)

[Alexander Leidinger]

Quoting Boris Samorodov <bsam at ipt.ru> (from Thu, 01 Nov 2007 13:47:55 +0300):

> On Thu, 01 Nov 2007 11:01:31 +0200 Andriy Gapon wrote:
>
>> Before I start, is it known that fc6 or f7 can work on 6.2 (not even
>> RELENG_6) ? If there are any success stories, then I'll give it a try
>> And if RELENG_6 is better in this respect than 6.2, then I'll wait for 6.3.
>
> The default (supported and maintained) linux.osrelease for all
> platforms is 2.4.2. As for RELENG_7 it _may_ change to 2.6.16
> before 7.1. There are no plans to do it for 6.x.
>
> Hence I won't advice using 2.6 with anything else but RELENG_7.

What Boris is trying to say is: it is a hard fact that everything  
before RELENG_7/HEAD only runs with 2.4.2. You can try to set it so  
something else, but it will not really work. 2.4.20 is 2.4+TLS. TLS in  
the linuxulator is only available in RELENG_7 and HEAD. FC6 and F7  
depend upon TLS, so those are only usable on RELENG_7 and HEAD.

If you use anything else than 2.4.2 and FC4 on RELENG_6 you do  
something wrong.

Beech, I haven't looked at the Skype 1.4 port, but it has to be marked  
as for RELENG_7 or later only. You can use USE_LINUX=fc6 (or f7) in  
it, but I suggest to use a pre-everything:: target to print a message  
that the _experimental_ setting compat.linux.osrelease=2.6.16 has to  
be used and that the users shall read the UPDATING entry for the date  
20070327.

Bye,
Alexander.

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