linux_dri at amd64 (was: Re: What is the recommended LinuxEmulator and kernel that will run skype-devel and maybe Flash9)

[Alexander Leidinger]

Quoting Beech Rintoul <beech at freebsd.org> (from Sun, 16 Mar 2008  
13:11:59 -0900):

> On Sunday 16 March 2008, Mark Linimon said:
>> On Sun, Mar 16, 2008 at 04:28:42PM +0300, Boris Samorodov wrote:
>> > Seems that the case is not so strict:
>> > http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=ports/91318
>>
>> OK, the email thread that led to the current state of this PR is
>> what I am remembering, under the vague label of "we will need
>> someone to track this when we flip it over".
>>
>> It will be instructive to look at the graphics/linux_dri row in
>> http://portsmon.freebsd.org/chartsandgraphs/package_failures_list.a
>> md64-6.html.
>>
>> I'm not objecting to flipping the ARCH as long as someone takes a
>> look at the dependents and does TRT with them.  It sounds like we
>> already have volunteers :-)
>>
>> mcl
>
> In going through the depend list, and grepping the tree it looks to me
> like there are @20 ports affected, one of which is marked broken for
> other reasons and two which are mine. Unless there's ports which
> aren't already flagged, I don't see any serious breakage happening.
>
> Alexander mentioned to check for linux errors. dyeske has been stress
> testing skype and there are none. So what's next? Maybe a heads-up on
> ports@ and I'm willing to ping the individual maintainers and track
> any breakage.
>
> BTW, I posted a list of dependent ports on my wiki:

Ok, as they are already i386 only, I don't expect a major impact by  
just switching linux_dri. To be on the safe side, just have a look  
again if no other port depends upon linux_dri and is marked as amd64  
too.

Bye,
Alexander.

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