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Port details on branch 2022Q3
newsstar Transfer news between a local NNTP server (INN, sn, s-news)
1.5.6_5 news on this many watch lists=2 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 1.5.6_4Version of this port present on the latest quarterly branch.
Maintainer: mandree@FreeBSD.org search for ports maintained by this maintainer
Port Added: 2004-05-14 17:54:48
Last Update: 2024-03-20 19:51:25
Commit Hash: 6e3a9cc
People watching this port, also watch:: apcupsd, htdig, mtop, dspam
License: GPLv3
WWW:
https://newsstar.sourceforge.net/
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.
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Manual pages:
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pkg-plist: as obtained via: make generate-plist
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  1. /usr/local/share/licenses/newsstar-1.5.6_5/catalog.mk
  2. /usr/local/share/licenses/newsstar-1.5.6_5/LICENSE
  3. /usr/local/share/licenses/newsstar-1.5.6_5/GPLv3
  4. @postexec d=/var/spool/newsstar/incoming ; test -d "$d" || install -d -onews -gnews -m0750 "$d"
  5. @postexec d=/var/spool/newsstar/lib ; test -d "$d" || install -d -onews -gnews -m0750 "$d"
  6. @postexec d="%D/etc/newsstar" ; test -d "$d" || install -d -o0 -g0 -m0755 "$d"
  7. bin/newsstar
  8. libexec/newsstar/newsstar.bin
  9. share/doc/newsstar/AUTHORS
  10. share/doc/newsstar/INSTALL
  11. share/doc/newsstar/NEWS
  12. share/doc/newsstar/README
  13. share/doc/newsstar/TODO
  14. share/doc/newsstar/QuickStart
  15. share/doc/newsstar/manual.txt
  16. share/doc/newsstar/news.html
  17. share/doc/newsstar/index.html
  18. share/doc/newsstar/ar01s02.html
  19. share/doc/newsstar/ar01s03.html
  20. share/doc/newsstar/ar01s04.html
  21. share/doc/newsstar/ar01s05.html
  22. share/doc/newsstar/ar01s06.html
  23. share/doc/newsstar/ar01s07.html
  24. share/doc/newsstar/ar01s08.html
  25. share/doc/newsstar/ar01s09.html
  26. share/doc/newsstar/ar01s10.html
  27. share/doc/newsstar/ar01s11.html
  28. share/doc/newsstar/ar01s12.html
  29. share/examples/newsstar/cf.server.sample
  30. share/examples/newsstar/curses.cf.sample
  31. share/examples/newsstar/filter.pl.sample
  32. share/examples/newsstar/main.cf.sample
  33. share/examples/newsstar/master.ignore.sample
  34. share/examples/newsstar/master.score.sample
  35. share/examples/newsstar/newsrc.sample
  36. share/man/man1/newsstar.1.gz
  37. @dir(news,news,750) /var/spool/newsstar/incoming
  38. @dir(news,news,750) /var/spool/newsstar/lib
  39. @dir /var/spool/newsstar
  40. @dir etc/newsstar
  41. @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
  42. @owner
  43. @group
  44. @mode
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Dependency lines:
  • newsstar>0:news/newsstar
To install the port:
cd /usr/ports/news/newsstar/ && make install clean
To add the package, run one of these commands:
  • pkg install news/newsstar
  • pkg install newsstar
NOTE: If this package has multiple flavors (see below), then use one of them instead of the name specified above.
PKGNAME: newsstar
Flavors: there is no flavor information for this port.
distinfo:
SHA256 (newsstar-1.5.6.tar.gz) = 8555e11904bcd183a5c5ff27b3bee9cd5d69d5482cda97f187d8683ec603bc9d SIZE (newsstar-1.5.6.tar.gz) = 239517

Packages (timestamps in pop-ups are UTC):
newsstar
ABIaarch64amd64armv6armv7i386powerpcpowerpc64powerpc64le
FreeBSD:13:latest1.5.6_41.5.6_51.5.6_31.5.6_41.5.6_5-1.5.6_3-
FreeBSD:13:quarterly1.5.6_41.5.6_41.5.6_41.5.6_41.5.6_41.5.6_41.5.6_41.5.6_4
FreeBSD:14:latest1.5.6_41.5.6_51.5.6_41.5.6_41.5.6_51.5.6_4-1.5.6_4
FreeBSD:14:quarterly1.5.6_41.5.6_4-1.5.6_41.5.6_41.5.6_41.5.6_41.5.6_4
FreeBSD:15:latest1.5.6_41.5.6_5n/a1.5.6_4n/a1.5.6_41.5.6_41.5.6_4
FreeBSD:15:quarterly--n/a-n/a---
Dependencies
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Build dependencies:
  1. xmlto : textproc/xmlto
  2. docbookx.dtd : textproc/docbook-xml
  3. perl5>=5.36<5.37 : lang/perl5.36
Runtime dependencies:
  1. perl5>=5.36<5.37 : lang/perl5.36
Library dependencies:
  1. libgdbm.so : databases/gdbm
There are no ports dependent upon this port

Configuration Options:
===> The following configuration options are available for newsstar-1.5.6_5: DOCS=on: Build and/or install documentation EXAMPLES=on: Build and/or install examples SSL=on: SSL protocol support ===> Use 'make config' to modify these settings
Options name:
news_newsstar
USES:
iconv ncurses perl5 shebangfix ssl
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  20. http://phoenixnap.dl.sourceforge.net/project/newsstar/newsstar/1.5.6/
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  32. https://deac-fra.dl.sourceforge.net/project/newsstar/newsstar/1.5.6/
  33. https://deac-riga.dl.sourceforge.net/project/newsstar/newsstar/1.5.6/
  34. https://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/newsstar/newsstar/1.5.6/
  35. https://excellmedia.dl.sourceforge.net/project/newsstar/newsstar/1.5.6/
  36. https://freefr.dl.sourceforge.net/project/newsstar/newsstar/1.5.6/
  37. https://gigenet.dl.sourceforge.net/project/newsstar/newsstar/1.5.6/
  38. https://ixpeering.dl.sourceforge.net/project/newsstar/newsstar/1.5.6/
  39. https://jaist.dl.sourceforge.net/project/newsstar/newsstar/1.5.6/
  40. https://jztkft.dl.sourceforge.net/project/newsstar/newsstar/1.5.6/
  41. https://kumisystems.dl.sourceforge.net/project/newsstar/newsstar/1.5.6/
  42. https://liquidtelecom.dl.sourceforge.net/project/newsstar/newsstar/1.5.6/
  43. https://nchc.dl.sourceforge.net/project/newsstar/newsstar/1.5.6/
  44. https://netactuate.dl.sourceforge.net/project/newsstar/newsstar/1.5.6/
  45. https://netcologne.dl.sourceforge.net/project/newsstar/newsstar/1.5.6/
  46. https://netix.dl.sourceforge.net/project/newsstar/newsstar/1.5.6/
  47. https://onboardcloud.dl.sourceforge.net/project/newsstar/newsstar/1.5.6/
  48. https://phoenixnap.dl.sourceforge.net/project/newsstar/newsstar/1.5.6/
  49. https://razaoinfo.dl.sourceforge.net/project/newsstar/newsstar/1.5.6/
  50. https://sinalbr.dl.sourceforge.net/project/newsstar/newsstar/1.5.6/
  51. https://sitsa.dl.sourceforge.net/project/newsstar/newsstar/1.5.6/
  52. https://sonik.dl.sourceforge.net/project/newsstar/newsstar/1.5.6/
  53. https://tenet.dl.sourceforge.net/project/newsstar/newsstar/1.5.6/
  54. https://udomain.dl.sourceforge.net/project/newsstar/newsstar/1.5.6/
  55. https://ufpr.dl.sourceforge.net/project/newsstar/newsstar/1.5.6/
  56. https://versaweb.dl.sourceforge.net/project/newsstar/newsstar/1.5.6/
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