| Notes from UPDATING |
These upgrade notes are taken from /usr/ports/UPDATING
- 2011-05-16
Affects: users of net/skype, net/skype-devel, net-im/skype, net-im/skype-devel Author: Ion-Mihai Tetcu <itetcu@FreeBSD.org> Reason:
All skype ports were moved to net-im/:
- skype12: unchanged, very old version (for FreeBSD 6)
- skype20: last version with OSS support, that used to live in net/skype; the
DISTFILE is gone from the vendor but if you happen to have it, it would be a
way of having sound w/o needing to upgrade your base OS
- [RECOMMENDED] skype: currently at 2.1.0.81 and the best supported
- skype-devel: currently at 2.2.0.25, sounds is OK, video doesn't work
To run either skype or skype-devel with fully working sound you need:
- to run fc10 (most probably, please report what you can do with fc4):
(OVERRIDE_LINUX_BASE_PORT=f10,OVERRIDE_LINUX_NONBASE_PORTS=f10
in /etc/make.conf for systems that doesn't have it as default)
- In order for Skype to work OK, you need your kernel and modules to be:
- post 2011-05-03 in on HEAD
- post 2011-05-08 in on 7,8-STABLE
The port tries to catch if your system version is too old, but there's a
~3months window where because of a lack of OSVERSION bump, this is not
possible. So please check; and PLEASE READ THE PKGMESSAGE for setup details.
For how to update your kernel/world, see:
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/kernelconfig.html
IF YOUR OSVERSION IS NOT NEW ENOUGH, SOUND (ESPECIALLY MIC) WON'T WORK.
If you run into problems, at very least we need to know the output of:
$ uname -a; sysctl compat.linux | head -2; \
grep OVERRIDE_LINUX_ /etc/make.conf; \
cat /compat/linux/etc/alsa/pcm/pcm-oss.conf
the skype version you are using and hardware details (eg. webcam, if related)
I most probably will ignore any mail not containing this info since without
it it's impossible to help.
Please test your sound /video setup outside skype before blaming skype /
mailing me.
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| Port Moves |
- port moved here from net/skype on 2011-05-09
REASON: Moved to a better category
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Number of commits found: 7
| Commit History - (may be incomplete: see SVNWeb link above for full details) |
| Date | By | Description |
23 May 2013 16:10:43
  2.1.0.81_1,1
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jgh  |
- adoption of optionsNG framework
Approved by: portmgr (bapt) |
21 Jan 2013 18:54:24
2.1.0.81_1,1
|
itetcu |
- fix typo
PR: 174743
Submitted by: Sayetsky Anton |
07 Jun 2012 19:41:34
2.1.0.81_1,1
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itetcu |
- mark skype and skype-devel CONFLICTing. I really don't know why they waren't
until now.
- bump PORTREVISION
I'll look for a better solution in the next days.
Submitted by: "Sulev-Madis 'ketas' Silber" <madis555@hot.ee>'s checker |
17 Jul 2011 16:29:42
2.1.0.81,1
|
nox |
Fix skype multimedia/linux_v4l2wrapper dependency on 8.
Approved by: itetcu (skype ports maintainer)
Discussed on: -multimedia |
12 May 2011 08:15:48
2.1.0.81,1
|
itetcu |
Display the package message when installing from port. |
11 May 2011 09:51:07
2.1.0.81,1
|
itetcu |
1. preserve the latest skype version that has OSS support as net-im/skype20
(but schedule it for removal soon)
2. update net-im/skype to 2.1.0.81.
- It supports sound and video, please read the pkg-message to find out how to
make it work.
- OPTIONify
Both ports are based on repocopy from net/skype.
Many thanks to: avg@, nox@, kwm@, miwi@, netchild@ and many others
PR: 147550 [1], 156860 [2] (partially based on)
Submitted by: HASHI Hiroaki <hashiz@meridiani.jp> [1],
patch from nox@ [2] |
09 May 2011 17:52:08
2.0.0.72,1
|
itetcu |
Force commit to note the repocopy net/skype --> net-im/skype.
Repocopy by: marcus@ |
Number of commits found: 7
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