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news Print news items
1.2 sysutils Deleted on this many watch lists=1 search for ports that depend on this port Find issues related to this port Report an issue related to this port View this port on Repology. pkg-fallout 1.2Version of this port present on the latest quarterly branch.
Deprecated DEPRECATED: Not staged. See http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-ports-announce/2014-May/000080.html
Expired This port expired on: 2014-08-31
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Port Added: 2012-02-16 18:06:35
Last Update: 2014-09-02 10:07:50
SVN Revision: 366980
People watching this port, also watch:: python, unoconv, py39-pycparser, sysinfo
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Description:
Introduction News is used to read and maintain news relevant to a local system. Typically it is run from the .login script so it can automatically check for any new news items. If it finds any, it will report, "You have news: item1 item2 etc..." To read the news, simply type "news". Note, you may wish to type "news | more" in case the news is too long to fit on a single screen. For complete information on the program, see the man page. Administration To add news items to your system, simply copy a text file containing the information to the news directory. (This directory defaults to /var/news, but can be changed in the Makefile or through the environment variable, NEWS_PATH)
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1.2
02 Sep 2014 10:07:50
Revision:366980Original commit files touched by this commit
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Remove non staged ports without pending PR from s*
1.2
06 Jul 2014 15:52:25
Revision:360930Original commit files touched by this commit
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Resetting maintainership on ports that have not been staged and without any
pending PR (related to stage)

With hat:	portmgr
1.2
20 Sep 2013 23:06:00
Revision:327772Original commit files touched by this commit
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Add NO_STAGE all over the place in preparation for the staging support (cat:
sysutils)
1.2
16 Feb 2012 18:06:06
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Add new port: (sysutils/news)

News is used to read and maintain news relevant to a local system.
Typically it is run from the .login script so it can automatically
check for any new news items.  If it finds any, it will report,
"You have news:  item1 item2 etc..."

No website for software

PR: ports/164456
Submitted by:   Hokan <hokan at me.umn.edu>

Number of commits found: 4