Date: Sat, 9 Jan 2016 23:34:51 +0000 (UTC) From: Benjamin Kaduk <bjk@FreeBSD.org> 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 Message-ID: <201601092334.u09NYpui070202@repo.freebsd.org>
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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 @@ </task> </help> </project> + + <project cat='ports'> + <title>IPv6 Promotion Campaign</title> + + <contact> + <person> + <name> + <given>Torsten</given> + <common>Zühlsdorff</common> + </name> + <email>ports@toco-domains.de</email> + </person> + </contact> + + <links> + <url href="https://wiki.FreeBSD.org/IPv6PortsTODO" /> + </links> + + <body> + <p>There are more and more machines on the internet that + <strong>only</strong> support IPv6. I manage some of them, and + was regularly hit by missing IPv6 support when building ports.</p> + + <p>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.</p> + + <p>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.</p> + </body> + </project> </report>
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