From owner-freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Wed Nov 25 14:14:18 2015 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 80F5CA36EA7 for ; Wed, 25 Nov 2015 14:14:18 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bz@FreeBSD.org) Received: from mx1.sbone.de (mx1.sbone.de [IPv6:2a01:4f8:130:3ffc::401:25]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-CAMELLIA256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "mx1.sbone.de", Issuer "SBone.DE" (not verified)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 3B38A1104 for ; Wed, 25 Nov 2015 14:14:18 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bz@FreeBSD.org) Received: from mail.sbone.de (mail.sbone.de [IPv6:fde9:577b:c1a9:31::2013:587]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-CAMELLIA256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.sbone.de (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 47CA625D387C; Wed, 25 Nov 2015 14:14:14 +0000 (UTC) Received: from content-filter.sbone.de (content-filter.sbone.de [IPv6:fde9:577b:c1a9:31::2013:2742]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.sbone.de (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 66FFEC77037; Wed, 25 Nov 2015 14:14:13 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at sbone.de Received: from mail.sbone.de ([IPv6:fde9:577b:c1a9:31::2013:587]) by content-filter.sbone.de (content-filter.sbone.de [fde9:577b:c1a9:31::2013:2742]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id OhMVXqFcZ-gB; Wed, 25 Nov 2015 14:14:12 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [IPv6:fde9:577b:c1a9:4420:cabc:c8ff:fe8b:4fe6] (orange-tun0-ula.sbone.de [IPv6:fde9:577b:c1a9:4420:cabc:c8ff:fe8b:4fe6]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.sbone.de (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id D536AC76FDB; Wed, 25 Nov 2015 14:14:11 +0000 (UTC) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Mime-Version: 1.0 (Mac OS X Mail 8.2 \(2104\)) Subject: Re: Announcement: IPv6 promotion campaign From: "Bjoern A. Zeeb" In-Reply-To: <5655B1CD.4050009@toco-domains.de> Date: Wed, 25 Nov 2015 14:14:09 +0000 Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: <09C295B8-8AB3-4601-B0B9-7B41E28DAA07@FreeBSD.org> References: <5655B1CD.4050009@toco-domains.de> To: Torsten Zuehlsdorff X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.2104) X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.20 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 25 Nov 2015 14:14:18 -0000 > On 25 Nov 2015, at 13:04 , Torsten Zuehlsdorff = wrote: >=20 > Hello, >=20 > FreeBSD supports IPv6 since 15 years and while IPv4 addresses running = low, its quite annoying how often there is no IPv6 support for existing = sites. >=20 > I'm hit at a regularly basis by that lack of support and it happens to = affect a greater number of the ports including some popular programs. >=20 > For example rubygems.org misses IPv6 support, rendering more than = 1.000 ports unfetchable and not buildable at an IPv6 only connection. = Same is true for Firefox and Thunderbird. > Even codeload.github.com is not reachable via IPv6. They are aware of this and have been regularly contacted by various = people from industry as well. > LibreOffice for example is not buildable, because some of the = dependencies are not fetchable. >=20 > While this is of course not a problem of FreeBSD it hits me as FreeBSD = user with my great numbers of IPv6 only jails ;) >=20 > In the next weeks i will start an promotion campaign to reduce the = lack of support. >=20 > Therefore i will: > - create a list of ports not fetchable through IPv6 > - assembling a list of affected hosters > - contact the projects and try to help them to add support >=20 > If anybody is interested in help me with this task, feel free to = contact me! :) Ich bin dabei :-) Bjoern