BSD Portsnews/newsstar 1.5.6_5 FreeBSD
Transfer news between a local NNTP server (INN, sn, s-news)
- System
- FreeBSD
- Repository
- FreeBSD ports
- Maintainer
- [email protected]
- License
- GPLv3
- Categories
- news
- Package size
- 100.9 KiB, 306.8 KiB installed
Description
Newsstar fetches news and posts it to a local server; INN, s-news and sn are supported, and it should be easy to adapt for other servers with some configuration and extra scripts. It's designed for Unix-like systems, and all the development was done on Linux.
There are already plenty of other programs to do this, but what makes newsstar special is that it can make multiple simultaneous connections, not only to one server, but to several, supporting up to 10 threads. Before fetching each article it checks that it hasn't already been downloaded by another thread or in a previous session. It can also pipeline article requests to make better use of available bandwidth.
I wrote it because a number of ISPs I have used suffer from unreliable newsfeeds. There is an excellent free server made available by news.individual.net, but it can be a bit slow at times, and using external servers uses more bandwidth. Therefore I wanted a program which could fetch whatever articles my ISP has available, but use the foreign server to avoid missing posts or getting them very late, and to do it as fast as possible.
In the other systems
The newest version among them is 1.5.6, as upstream numbers it.
| System | Port | Version | Vulnerabilities | Status | Maintainer | Last update |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FreeBSD | news/newsstar | 1.5.6_5 newest | none known | - | [email protected] | - |
| DragonFly | news/newsstar | 1.5.6_5 newest | none known | - | [email protected] | - |
| HardenedBSD | news/newsstar | 1.5.6_5 newest | no data | - | [email protected] | - |
| GhostBSD | news/newsstar | 1.5.6_5 newest | no data | - | [email protected] | - |
Install
Binary package:
pkg install newsstarFrom the ports tree:
cd /usr/ports/news/newsstar/ && make install cleanTo depend on this port in another port's Makefile:
RUN_DEPENDS= newsstar>0:news/newsstarPackages
The version each package repository carries. “-” means the repository builds no package of it, “n/a” that there is no such repository.
| Repository | aarch64 | amd64 | armv6 | armv7 | i386 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FreeBSD:14:latest | 1.5.6_5 | 1.5.6_5 | 1.5.6_4 | 1.5.6_5 | 1.5.6_5 |
| FreeBSD:14:quarterly | 1.5.6_5 | 1.5.6_5 | n/a | 1.5.6_5 | 1.5.6_5 |
| FreeBSD:15:latest | 1.5.6_5 | 1.5.6_5 | n/a | 1.5.6_5 | 1.5.6_5 |
| FreeBSD:15:quarterly | 1.5.6_5 | 1.5.6_5 | n/a | n/a | n/a |
| FreeBSD:16:latest | 1.5.6_5 | 1.5.6_5 | n/a | n/a | n/a |
| FreeBSD:16:quarterly | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a |
Dependency graph
Ports that need it on the left, what it needs to run on the right; at most 8 of each. "Dependencies" below lists them all.
Dependencies
As this port's Makefile names them.
Build 2
xmlto: textproc/xmlto${LOCALBASE}/share/xml/docbook/4.5/docbookx.dtd: textproc/docbook-xml
Library 1
libgdbm.so: databases/gdbm
The full lists below include those, and their dependencies in turn.
Build dependencies 23
- databases/gdbm
- devel/boehm-gc
- devel/gettext-runtime
- devel/readline
- lang/perl5.42
- misc/getopt
- print/indexinfo
- print/libpaper
- security/libgcrypt
- security/libgpg-error
- shells/bash
- textproc/docbook
- textproc/docbook-sgml
- textproc/docbook-xml
- textproc/docbook-xsl
- textproc/iso8879
- textproc/libxml2
- textproc/libxslt
- textproc/sdocbook-xml
- textproc/xmlcatmgr
- textproc/xmlcharent
- textproc/xmlto
- www/w3m
No port depends on this one.
Configuration
Options name: news_newsstar
| Option | Default | Description |
|---|---|---|
| DOCS | off | Build and/or install documentation |
| EXAMPLES | off | Build and/or install examples |
| SSL | on | SSL protocol support |
- USES
- iconv ncurses perl5 shebangfix
- Service scripts
- none
Files
Manual pages 1
- newsstar(1)
pkg-plist 38
- @postexec d=/var/spool/newsstar/incoming ; test -d "$d" || install -d -onews -gnews -m0750 "$d"
- @postexec d=/var/spool/newsstar/lib ; test -d "$d" || install -d -onews -gnews -m0750 "$d"
- @postexec d="%D/etc/newsstar" ; test -d "$d" || install -d -o0 -g0 -m0755 "$d"
- bin/newsstar
- libexec/newsstar/newsstar.bin
- share/doc/newsstar/AUTHORS
- share/doc/newsstar/INSTALL
- share/doc/newsstar/NEWS
- share/doc/newsstar/README
- share/doc/newsstar/TODO
- share/doc/newsstar/QuickStart
- share/doc/newsstar/manual.txt
- share/doc/newsstar/news.html
- share/doc/newsstar/index.html
- share/doc/newsstar/ar01s02.html
- share/doc/newsstar/ar01s03.html
- share/doc/newsstar/ar01s04.html
- share/doc/newsstar/ar01s05.html
- share/doc/newsstar/ar01s06.html
- share/doc/newsstar/ar01s07.html
- share/doc/newsstar/ar01s08.html
- share/doc/newsstar/ar01s09.html
- share/doc/newsstar/ar01s10.html
- share/doc/newsstar/ar01s11.html
- share/doc/newsstar/ar01s12.html
- share/examples/newsstar/cf.server.sample
- share/examples/newsstar/curses.cf.sample
- share/examples/newsstar/filter.pl.sample
- share/examples/newsstar/main.cf.sample
- share/examples/newsstar/master.ignore.sample
- share/examples/newsstar/master.score.sample
- share/examples/newsstar/newsrc.sample
- share/man/man1/newsstar.1.gz
- @dir(news,news,750) /var/spool/newsstar/incoming
- @dir(news,news,750) /var/spool/newsstar/lib
- @dir /var/spool/newsstar
- @dir etc/newsstar
- @postunexec if [ -d /var/spool/newsstar ] ; then echo "==================================================" ; echo "If you are deinstalling newsstar for good" ; echo "remove the spool: type: rm -rf /var/spool/newsstar"; echo "==================================================" ; fi
distinfo 1
| File | Size | SHA256 |
|---|---|---|
| newsstar-1.5.6.tar.gz | 239517 | 8555e11904bcd183a5c5ff27b3bee9cd5d69d5482cda97f187d8683ec603bc9d |
Master sites 1
- SF
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