newsstar 1.5.4_1 news =2

Transfer news between a local NNTP server (INN, sn, s-news)

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Port Added: 14 May 2004 17:54:48
License: GPLv3

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.

WWW: http://newsstar.sourceforge.net/

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Required To Build: textproc/xmlto, textproc/docbook-xml, lang/perl5.8
Required To Run: lang/perl5.8
Required Libraries: databases/gdbm, converters/libiconv
There are no ports dependent upon this port

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To install the port: cd /usr/ports/news/newsstar/ && make install clean
To add the package: pkg_add -r newsstar

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Configuration Options

     No options to configure

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Master Sites:

http://heanet.dl.sourceforge.net/project/newsstar/newsstar/1.5.4/

http://sunet.dl.sourceforge.net/project/newsstar/newsstar/1.5.4/

http://iweb.dl.sourceforge.net/project/newsstar/newsstar/1.5.4/

http://switch.dl.sourceforge.net/project/newsstar/newsstar/1.5.4/

http://surfnet.dl.sourceforge.net/project/newsstar/newsstar/1.5.4/

http://kent.dl.sourceforge.net/project/newsstar/newsstar/1.5.4/

http://freefr.dl.sourceforge.net/project/newsstar/newsstar/1.5.4/

http://voxel.dl.sourceforge.net/project/newsstar/newsstar/1.5.4/

http://jaist.dl.sourceforge.net/project/newsstar/newsstar/1.5.4/

http://osdn.dl.sourceforge.net/project/newsstar/newsstar/1.5.4/

http://nchc.dl.sourceforge.net/project/newsstar/newsstar/1.5.4/

http://ncu.dl.sourceforge.net/project/newsstar/newsstar/1.5.4/

http://transact.dl.sourceforge.net/project/newsstar/newsstar/1.5.4/

http://softlayer.dl.sourceforge.net/project/newsstar/newsstar/1.5.4/

http://internode.dl.sourceforge.net/project/newsstar/newsstar/1.5.4/

http://ufpr.dl.sourceforge.net/project/newsstar/newsstar/1.5.4/

http://waix.dl.sourceforge.net/project/newsstar/newsstar/1.5.4/

ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/distfiles/

- Add LDFLAGS to CONFIGURE_ENV and MAKE_ENV (as it was done with LDFLAGS)
- Fix all ports that add {CPP,LD}FLAGS to *_ENV to modify flags instead

PR:             157936
Submitted by:   myself
Exp-runs by:    pav
Approved by:    pav

- Track dependencies after databases/gdbm update

Fix NOPORTDOCS builds if gmake isn't installed.

Fix leftover files in NOPORTDOCS install.

Add LICENSE=GPLv3 line.

Feature safe: yes

- Update to upstream release 1.5.4 (2009)
  + This unbreaks the build, removing BROKEN= tag.

- For examples, use [NO]PORTEXAMPLES instead of [NO]PORTDOCS

- HAS_CONFIGURE -> GNU_CONFIGURE

- Drop all patches from files/,
  + patch-configure.in and patch-newsstar.in integrated in upstream
  + patch-Makefile.am no longer needed after further upstream fixes

- Drop USE_AUTOTOOLS, we're no longer patching *.ac/*.am files.

- Mark MAKE_JOBS_SAFE for parallel builds.

- Note I cannot actually test the resulting executable for lack of local
  news servers, hence I'm not taking maintainership either.

Feature safe: yes

Sync to new bsd.autotools.mk

Reset anray@FreeBSD.org due to maintainer-timeouts and no response to email.

Hat:            portmgr

Punt autoconf267->autoconf268

Migration of BROKEN ports from automake{19,110}->111 which will most
likely need to be looked at as and when they become unbroken.

Autotools update.   Read ports/UPDATING 20100915 for details.

Approved by:    portmgr (for Mk/bsd.port.mk part)
Tested by:      Multiple -exp runs

Mark BROKEN: does not build

- Update to 1.5.3

PR:             ports/136807
Submitted by:   Radim Kolar SF.NET <hsn@sendmail.cz>

- Switch SourceForge ports to the new File Release System: categories starting
with N

Set USE_PERL5/WANT_PERL as appropriate, for ports that either depend on
perl unconditonally, or conditionally.  To be able to conditionalize the
inclusion of bsd.perl.mk, they now need to be defined before the inclusion
of bsd.port.pre.mk.

Hat:            portmgr

- Update to 1.3.2
- Fixed broken detection of installed INN
- Added missing dependency on GDBM
- manpage installed into right directory

PR:             ports/116370
Submitted by:   Radim Kolar SF.NET <hsn@sendmail.cz>

SHA256ify

Approved by: krion@

Change email address for all my ports.

Approved by:    sem(mentor)

Update to version 1.2.2

PR:             ports/78326
Submitted by:   maintainer

[PATCH] change MAINTAINER email address for all my ports.

PR:             ports/75559
Submitted by:   Andrey Slusar <anray@inet.ua>

Update to 1.2.1

PR:             ports/70908
Submitted by:   maintainer

Update to 1.2

PR:             ports/70676
Submitted by:   maintainer

Change option WITH_SN to WITH_INN and remove RUN_DEPENDS.
Add s-news to COMMENT.
Fix autosearch paths to newsservers.
Fix running overview program if using s-news.
Fix path to sendmail.
Bump portrevision.

PR:             ports/70437
Submitted by:   maintainer

Change maintainer's email.

PR:             ports/70138
Submitted by:   Andrey Slusar <vasallia@ukr.net>

Update to 1.1.1

PR:             ports/68901
Submitted by:   maintainer
Approved by:    krion (mentor)

Add newsstar, a program that fetches news from a number of remote NNTP servers
and posts it to a local server (INN or sn), and also posts outgoing articles
from the local server to the remote ones. It uses a configurable number of
multiple  processes or "threads" to maximise bandwidth utilisation. The threads
are coordinated to avoid downloading multiple copies of the same article.

PR:             ports/66441
Submitted by:   Andrey Slusar <vasallia@ukr.net>

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