svn commit: r47988 - head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status
Benjamin Kaduk <[email protected]>
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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
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--- 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>[email protected]</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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