BSD Ports

news/yencode 0.46_8 DragonFly

Free (GPL) encoder and decoder for the yEnc Usenet file format

System
DragonFly
Repository
DPorts
Maintainer
[email protected] (as in FreeBSD)
Categories
news
Package size
52.2 KiB, 150.7 KiB installed

Description

yencode is an encoder/decoder package for the Usenet yEnc encoding format.

The source code is freely available under the GNU General Public License and should work on most modern Unix-like operating systems.

Features:

  • Full internationalization (multilingual) support provided by GNU gettext.
  • Encoder can output single part or multipart encoded archives of any size.
  • Smart decoder can handle multiple files, including files specified out of order or with nonsense file names.
  • Included Usenet posting software posts files to Usenet quickly and easily, including automatic creation of encoded multipart archives and SFV/CRC checksum files, if desired.
  • Optional scan mode: automatically locate and decode single or multipart encoded archives in specified directories or recursively.
  • Supports SFV file creation for multiple-file archives.
  • Fully compliant with the current yEnc specifications.

In the other systems

SystemPortVersion
DragonFlynews/yencode0.46_8
FreeBSDnews/yencode0.46_8
OpenBSDnews/yencode0.46p3
NetBSDconverters/yencode0.4.6nb1
MidnightBSDnews/yencode0.46
GhostBSDnews/yencode0.46_8

Install

Binary package:

pkg install yencode

From DPorts:

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

Dependencies

Run dependencies 1

No port depends on this one.

Configuration

No options to configure.

Service scripts
none

Message after installing

===>   NOTICE:

The yencode 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