Port details on branch 2022Q3 |
- newsstar Transfer news between a local NNTP server (INN, sn, s-news)
- 1.5.6_5 news =2 1.5.6_4Version of this port present on the latest quarterly branch.
- Maintainer: mandree@FreeBSD.org
- Port Added: 2004-05-14 17:54:48
- Last Update: 2024-03-20 19:51:25
- Commit Hash: 6e3a9cc
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- 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:
- FreshPorts has no man page information for this port.
- pkg-plist: as obtained via:
make generate-plist - Dependency lines:
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- 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
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- Dependencies
- NOTE: FreshPorts displays only information on required and default dependencies. Optional dependencies are not covered.
- Build dependencies:
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- xmlto : textproc/xmlto
- docbookx.dtd : textproc/docbook-xml
- perl5>=5.36<5.37 : lang/perl5.36
- Runtime dependencies:
-
- perl5>=5.36<5.37 : lang/perl5.36
- Library dependencies:
-
- 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
- FreshPorts was unable to extract/find any pkg message
- Master Sites:
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