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Date:      Thu, 01 Nov 2007 10:24:29 +0100
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Beech Rintoul <beech@freebsd.org>
Cc:        Boris Samorodov <bsam@ipt.ru>, cvs-ports@freebsd.org, cvs-all@freebsd.org, ports-committers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: ports UPDATING
Message-ID:  <47299B4D.3000304@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <200710311537.50879.beech@freebsd.org>
References:  <20071031033600.6DBD916A531@hub.freebsd.org> <74950621@bs1.sp34.ru> <47290954.6030900@FreeBSD.org> <200710311537.50879.beech@freebsd.org>

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Beech Rintoul wrote:
> 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@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.

Sounds good to me, thanks!

Kris




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