From owner-svn-doc-head@freebsd.org Sat Jan 9 23:34:52 2016 Return-Path: Delivered-To: svn-doc-head@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 681FCA6980F; Sat, 9 Jan 2016 23:34:52 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bjk@FreeBSD.org) Received: from repo.freebsd.org (repo.freebsd.org [IPv6:2610:1c1:1:6068::e6a:0]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 1D01F1CEB; Sat, 9 Jan 2016 23:34:52 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bjk@FreeBSD.org) Received: from repo.freebsd.org ([127.0.1.37]) by repo.freebsd.org (8.15.2/8.15.2) with ESMTP id u09NYpZ8070203; Sat, 9 Jan 2016 23:34:51 GMT (envelope-from bjk@FreeBSD.org) Received: (from bjk@localhost) by repo.freebsd.org (8.15.2/8.15.2/Submit) id u09NYpui070202; Sat, 9 Jan 2016 23:34:51 GMT (envelope-from bjk@FreeBSD.org) Message-Id: <201601092334.u09NYpui070202@repo.freebsd.org> X-Authentication-Warning: repo.freebsd.org: bjk set sender to bjk@FreeBSD.org using -f From: Benjamin Kaduk Date: Sat, 9 Jan 2016 23:34:51 +0000 (UTC) To: doc-committers@freebsd.org, svn-doc-all@freebsd.org, svn-doc-head@freebsd.org Subject: svn commit: r47988 - head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status X-SVN-Group: doc-head MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-BeenThere: svn-doc-head@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.20 Precedence: list List-Id: SVN commit messages for the doc tree for head List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 09 Jan 2016 23:34:52 -0000 Author: bjk Date: Sat Jan 9 23:34:50 2016 New Revision: 47988 URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/47988 Log: Add entry on IPv6 promotion for upstream distfiles from Torsten Zuehlsdorff Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2015-10-2015-12.xml Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2015-10-2015-12.xml ============================================================================== --- head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2015-10-2015-12.xml Sat Jan 9 23:13:01 2016 (r47987) +++ head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2015-10-2015-12.xml Sat Jan 9 23:34:50 2016 (r47988) @@ -1460,4 +1460,43 @@ + + + IPv6 Promotion Campaign + + + + + Torsten + Zühlsdorff + + ports@toco-domains.de + + + + + + + + +

There are more and more machines on the internet that + only support IPv6. I manage some of them, and + was regularly hit by missing IPv6 support when building ports.

+ +

I did some research into the impact of missing IPv6 support + on the ports tree. The results are that 10.308 of 25.522 ports + are not fetchable when using IPv6. This renders — through + dependencies — a total of 17.715 ports unbuildable from + IPv6-only systems. All you can do than is wait and hope that + distcache.FreeBSD.org caches the distfile. But this will take + some time, which may not be a luxury available when a piece of + software in use is hit by a security issue.

+ +

Based on the research, a promotion campaign for IPv6 was + started. Some volunteers will contact the relevant system + administrators and try to convince them to support IPv6. This + will start in January 2016 and will hopefully create some progress + soon.

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