Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2008 12:20:42 -0800 From: Beech Rintoul <beech@alaskaparadise.com> To: FreeBSD-multimedia@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Regarding latest Skype update in UPDATING Message-ID: <200803181220.44474.beech@alaskaparadise.com> In-Reply-To: <20080318193628.1dc85b79@anthesphoria.net> References: <47DFDFD9.5010903@cyberbotx.com> <op.t77x05mu9aq2h7@mezz.mezzweb.com> <20080318193628.1dc85b79@anthesphoria.net>
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On Tuesday 18 March 2008, Nikola Lečić said: > On Tue, 18 Mar 2008 10:44:55 -0500 > > "Jeremy Messenger" <mezz7@cox.net> wrote: > > On Tue, 18 Mar 2008 10:29:29 -0500, Naram Qashat > > > > <cyberbotx@cyberbotx.com> wrote: > > > I just updated my ports tree and noticed there was a message in > > > UPDATING about Skype requiring linux-fc6 and the Linux > > > emulation layer being set to 2.6.16. How does this affect > > > people still using FreeBSD 6.x? Don't we not have 2.6.16 as an > > > option, but only 2.4.2? I'm personally updating to FreeBSD 7.0 > > > next week, but I feel it's good to ask for those people out > > > there still using 6.x. > > > > You will get a better result if you CC'ing or straight email to > > the maintainer. I personal think that skype port should be mark > > as BROKEN for FreeBSD 6.x and below. Also, maybe create skype12 > > for FreeBSD 6.x users. > > I happily use Skype-1.4 on plain FreeBSD-6.2 for months and it > works flawlessly. I don't have OVERRIDE_LINUX_BASE_PORT or anything > of that sort at all. > > I did just two small adjustments: Skype-1.4 must be run with setuid > root (other people reported similar thing) and with > --resources=/usr/local/share/skype. > > IMHO no need to mark it BROKEN. People's mileage seems to vary on this, I didn't have any problems with this version on 6.x either. But, in order to keep people happy, I have added a legacy net/skype12 for 5.x and 6.x, plus some additional instructions in UPDATING. Since Skype really wants us to quit using this, it isn't available for 7.x and above. I have added the resources flag to net/skype, in both the .desktop file and in pkg-message and that should be used regardless on FreeBSD. On another note the amd64 restriction will be removed from linux_dri so those users can use skype, but I think I'll wait a couple more days at least before I muddy the water further. Beech -- --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Beech Rintoul - Sys. Administrator - beech@alaskaparadise.com /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign | Alaska Paradise Travel \ / - NO HTML/RTF in e-mail | 201 East 9Th Avenue Ste.310 X - NO Word docs in e-mail | Anchorage, AK 99501 / \ - Please visit Alaska Paradise - http://www.alaskaparadise.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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