Bug 36996 – gaim needs to now use scs.msg.yahoo.com

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED FIXED

[Description Scott Taylor (RETIRED) 2004-01-01 23:07:51 UTC]

December 29th, 2003 - 3:33PM EST  	Yahoo! Problems    

For those of you who are having troubles connecting to Yahoo! and have not yet already done so, change your server from scs.yahoo.com to scs.msg.yahoo.com. Gaim 0.75 will do this automatically for you.

[Comment 1 Scott Taylor (RETIRED) 2004-01-01 23:12:05 UTC]

Created attachment 22997 [details, diff]
sets new default server

[Comment 2 Scott Taylor (RETIRED) 2004-01-01 23:16:03 UTC]

Created attachment 22998 [details]
gaim-0.74-r2.ebuild

--- gaim-0.74-r1.ebuild 2003-12-23 22:45:15.000000000 -0700
+++ gaim-0.74-r2.ebuild 2004-01-01 23:55:45.000000000 -0700
@@ -33,6 +33,7 @@
	unpack ${P}.tar.bz2 || die
	cd ${S}
	epatch ${FILESDIR}/gaim-0.74-log_free.patch
+	epatch ${FILESDIR}/gaim-0.74-scs-msg-yahoo.patch
	use cjk && epatch ${FILESDIR}/gaim-0.74_cjk_gtkconv.patch
  
	use ssl && {
@@ -113,4 +114,9 @@
		ewarn "via http://bugs.gentoo.org/ or the gaim-encryption
project."
		ewarn
	fi
+
+	ewarn
+	ewarn "Yahoo moved their servers. The new name is scs.msg.yahoo.com"
+	ewarn "Check existing profiles and change to this server if it is not
already there"
+	ewarn
 }

[Comment 3 Don Seiler (RETIRED) 2004-01-02 07:20:22 UTC]

I'll put this in the current -r1, doesn't require a revision bump yet.

[Comment 4 Don Seiler (RETIRED) 2004-01-02 07:46:11 UTC]

Updated gaim-0.74-r1 in CVS.  The reason I didn't create a revision is that this patch doesn't fix anything for existing yahoo accounts, so forcing existing users to upgrade would really be unnecessary.

Thanks for the patch!