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Port details
newsbot Gathers news from RDF/RSS and send them to your IM client
0.4.5_1 net-im Deleted on this many watch lists=0 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 0.4.5_1Version of this port present on the latest quarterly branch.
Deprecated DEPRECATED: No more public distfiles
Expired This port expired on: 2011-09-01
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Port Added: 2005-11-09 17:32:58
Last Update: 2011-10-09 02:47:51
SVN Revision: UNKNOWN
License: not specified in port
Description:
newsBot gathers news from various news feeds(RDF/RSS-pages) and send the news to your IM client. The bot is a console based application and uses the Jabber network for messaging. Each RDF/RSS-page is checked every 30 min in a running order. When a new news item is found, the news will be sent to the users with the website in its site list. The news item will include(if available) title, date, link and a short description. Features: * Individual user settings. * 15 bot commands. * Over 30 news feeds to choose from. * Ability to add and remove news feeds. * and more...
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Dependency lines:
  • newsbot>0:net-im/newsbot
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PKGNAME: newsbot
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Dependencies
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Build dependencies:
  1. python2.7 : lang/python27
Runtime dependencies:
  1. jabber.py : net-im/py-jabber
  2. python2.7 : lang/python27
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Configuration Options:
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Master Sites:
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  1. ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/distfiles/
  2. http://freebsd.unixfreunde.de/sources/
  3. http://www.jabberstudio.org/files/newsbot/
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Number of commits found: 8

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0.4.5_1
09 Oct 2011 02:47:51
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dougb search for other commits by this committer
Remove ports maintainted by ports@ which have passed their EXPIRATION_DATE

astro/gkrellsun         Abandonware
astro/xrmap             No more distfiles
audio/midimountain      Abandonware
audio/gkrellmss         Abandonware
audio/gnapster          Abandonware
databases/xbase         No more public distfiles
databases/xbsql         No more public distfiles
games/gtkabale          No more public distfiles
games/battleball        No more public distfiles, does not compile on ia64 or
sparc64
games/race              No more public distfiles
games/stvef-paks        No more public distfiles
games/stvef-server      No more public distfiles
games/tome              No more public distfiles
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0.4.5_1
02 Aug 2011 20:58:23
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ehaupt search for other commits by this committer
Remove WWW entries from unmaintained ports that return 404 or where the domain
disappeared.
0.4.5_1
02 Aug 2011 17:04:00
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bapt search for other commits by this committer
Deprecate some ports where I can't find distfiles and upstream
0.4.5_1
20 Mar 2011 12:54:45
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miwi search for other commits by this committer
- Get Rid MD5 support
0.4.5_1
30 May 2006 17:20:11
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garga search for other commits by this committer
I've committed MASTER_SITES changes proposed by Marin Wilke some days ago,
but, the correct way is preserve original MASTER_SITE and add
freebsd.unixfreunde.de just as a backup, I'm doing it right now, restoring
original preserving the Martin's proposed backup.
0.4.5_1
24 May 2006 11:23:22
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garga search for other commits by this committer
Make it fetchable again

PR:             ports/97739
Submitted by:   Martin Wilke <freebsd@unixfreunde.de>
0.4.5_1
25 Nov 2005 16:56:11
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pav search for other commits by this committer
- Add SHA256
0.4.5_1
09 Nov 2005 08:21:21
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pav search for other commits by this committer
Move instant messaging related ports to newly created net-im category:

  net/gaim -> net-im/gaim
  net/gaim-latex -> net-im/gaim-latex
  net/gaim-openq -> net-im/gaim-openq
  net/gaim-rss-reader -> net-im/gaim-rss-reader
  net/gicq -> net-im/gicq
  net/gnomeicu2 -> net-im/gnomeicu2
  net/gossip -> net-im/gossip
  net/ickle -> net-im/ickle
  net/jabber -> net-im/jabber
  net/jabber-aim -> net-im/jabber-aim
  net/jabber-conference -> net-im/jabber-conference
  net/jabber-jud -> net-im/jabber-jud
  net/jabber-msn -> net-im/jabber-msn
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Number of commits found: 8