BSD Ports

news/newsfetch 1.21_3 DragonFly

Download news articles from NNTP server

System
DragonFly
Repository
DPorts
Maintainer
[email protected] (as in FreeBSD)
Categories
news
Package size
11.6 KiB, 24.9 KiB installed

Description

Newsfetch pulls news from an NNTP server and writes the articles to a file or pipes them to the specified command. The file created by newsfetch can be used with any mail reader.

In the other systems

The newest version among them is 1.21, as upstream numbers it.

SystemPortVersionVulnerabilitiesStatusMaintainerLast update
DragonFlynews/newsfetch1.21_3 newestnone known-[email protected]-
FreeBSDnews/newsfetch1.21_3 newestnone known-[email protected]-
NetBSDnews/newsfetch1.3nb2none known-[email protected]-
MidnightBSDnews/newsfetch1.21_4 newestno data-[email protected]-
HardenedBSDnews/newsfetch1.21_3 newestno data-[email protected]-
GhostBSDnews/newsfetch1.21_3 newestno data-[email protected]-

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Install

Binary package:

pkg install newsfetch

From DPorts:

cd /usr/dports/news/newsfetch && make install clean

Dependencies

No port depends on this one.

Configuration

No options to configure.

Service scripts
none

Message after installing

===>   NOTICE:

The newsfetch port currently does not have a maintainer. As a result, it is
more likely to have unresolved issues, not be up-to-date, or even be removed in
the future. To volunteer to maintain this port, please create an issue at:

https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla

More information about port maintainership is available at:

https://docs.freebsd.org/en/articles/contributing/#ports-contributing