Port details |
- newsstar Transfer news between a local NNTP server (INN, sn, s-news)
- 1.5.6_5 news =4 1.5.6_5Version 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
- People watching this port, also watch:: crm114, apcupsd, aide, healthd, oinkmaster
- 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.
- ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦
- Manual pages:
- FreshPorts has no man page information for this port.
- pkg-plist: as obtained via:
make generate-plist - Dependency lines:
-
- 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):
- Dependencies
- NOTE: FreshPorts displays only information on required and default dependencies. Optional dependencies are not covered.
- Build dependencies:
-
- 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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Commit History - (may be incomplete: for full details, see links to repositories near top of page) |
Commit | Credits | Log message |
1.5.6_5 20 Mar 2024 19:51:25 |
Nuno Teixeira (eduardo) |
news/newsstar: Move man pages to share/man
Approved by: portmgr (blanket) |
1.5.6_4 16 May 2023 19:29:37 |
Matthias Andree (mandree) |
news/newsstar: update WWW to upgraded https:// (sourceforge) |
07 Sep 2022 21:58:51 |
Stefan Eßer (se) |
Remove WWW entries moved into port Makefiles
Commit b7f05445c00f has added WWW entries to port Makefiles based on
WWW: lines in pkg-descr files.
This commit removes the WWW: lines of moved-over URLs from these
pkg-descr files.
Approved by: portmgr (tcberner) |
1.5.6_4 07 Sep 2022 21:10:59 |
Stefan Eßer (se) |
Add WWW entries to port Makefiles
It has been common practice to have one or more URLs at the end of the
ports' pkg-descr files, one per line and prefixed with "WWW:". These
URLs should point at a project website or other relevant resources.
Access to these URLs required processing of the pkg-descr files, and
they have often become stale over time. If more than one such URL was
present in a pkg-descr file, only the first one was tarnsfered into
the port INDEX, but for many ports only the last line did contain the
port specific URL to further information.
There have been several proposals to make a project URL available as
a macro in the ports' Makefiles, over time.
(Only the first 15 lines of the commit message are shown above ) |
1.5.6_4 04 Sep 2022 00:26:57 |
Matthias Andree (mandree) |
news/newsstar: fix OpenSSL detection & cleanups
OpenSSL detection was broken because it looked for SSL_library_init(),
which has been gone since OpenSSL 1.1.0 already. Patch to look for
OPENSSL_init_ssl() instead.
Replace @exec by @postexec.
Add USES=ncurses.
Rearrange Makefile to reduce complaints from portclippy and portlint. |
1.5.6_3 20 Jul 2022 14:22:44 |
Tobias C. Berner (tcberner) |
news: remove 'Created by' lines
A big Thank You to the original contributors of these ports:
* Adam David <adam@FreeBSD.org>
* Ade Lovett <ade@FreeBSD.org>
* Andreas Klemm <andreas@klemm.gtn.com>
* Andrey Slusar <anray@FreeBSD.org>
* Brian Somers <brian@FreeBSD.org>
* Carey Jones <mcj@acquiesce.org>
* David O'Brien (obrien@cs.ucdavis.edu)
* Denis Shaposhnikov <dsh@vlink.ru>
* Don Croyle <croyle@gelemna.org>
* Donald Burr <dburr@FreeBSD.org>
* Frederic Cambus (Only the first 15 lines of the commit message are shown above ) |
1.5.6_3 06 Apr 2021 14:31:07 |
Mathieu Arnold (mat) |
Remove # $FreeBSD$ from Makefiles. |
1.5.6_3 11 Nov 2018 15:38:51 |
danfe |
Update `databases/gdbm' to version 1.18.1, an important bugfix release
which restores compatibility with old databases (version 1.8) and some
later versions which were built without mmap(2) support. Due to shlib
version change, bump port revisions of the consumer ports.
PR: 233059
Exp-run by: antoine
Approved by: maintainer (johans, numerous timeouts) |
1.5.6_2 15 Mar 2017 14:45:31 |
mat |
Remove all USE_OPENSSL occurrences.
Sponsored by: Absolight |
1.5.6_2 08 Dec 2016 19:23:25 |
tijl |
Remove libiconv.so.3 compatibility link that was added in r374303 to
prevent massive PORTREVISION bumps. Bump dependent ports that have not
been bumped since. |
1.5.6_1 01 Apr 2016 14:16:20 |
mat |
Remove ${PORTSDIR}/ from dependencies, categories m, n, o, and p.
With hat: portmgr
Sponsored by: Absolight |
1.5.6_1 30 Dec 2015 15:16:27 |
mandree |
Cleanup and update.
PR: 205574
Submitted by: Dmitry Marakasov (amdmi3@) |
1.5.6_1 15 Jul 2014 16:47:45 |
adamw |
Add DOCS to OPTIONS_DEFINE to ports that check for PORT_OPTIONS:MDOCS. |
1.5.6_1 11 Jun 2014 14:50:00 |
tijl |
Support LIBS like LDFLAGS.
- Add LIBS="${LIBS}" to MAKE_ENV and CONFIGURE_ENV.
- Add an option helper for LIBS.
- Adjust all ports that already use LIBS. Also remove references to
PTHREAD_CFLAGS and PTHREAD_LIBS while here.
- Some ports did not support having a LIBS environment variable and
required additional patches.
Somewhat simplified a linker command line looks like:
${CC} ${src_LDFLAGS} ${LDFLAGS} ${src_LIBS} ${LIBS}
where src_LDFLAGS and src_LIBS are controlled by upstream and LDFLAGS and
LIBS can be controlled by us. If possible -L and -l flags need to be (Only the first 15 lines of the commit message are shown above ) |
1.5.6_1 31 Oct 2013 00:38:31 |
mandree |
Attempt to fix build issues.
Add SHEBANG_FILES=newsstar.in, bumping PORTREVISION. |
1.5.6 23 Oct 2013 22:17:50 |
mandree |
Support staging.
Reorder Makefile targets (post-install after post-patch).
Update to new LIB_DEPENDS format.
Disable chown, and leave that to the package.
Note that this apparently exposes issues with
poudriere testport/make check-orphans due to absolute /var paths. |
1.5.6 20 Sep 2013 22:31:15 |
bapt |
Add NO_STAGE all over the place in preparation for the staging support (cat:
news) |
1.5.6 19 Sep 2013 22:24:49 |
madpilot |
- Add explicit $ICONV_LIB
Submitted by: marino
Approved by: portmgr (bapt, implicit) |
1.5.6 14 Sep 2013 12:04:19 |
az |
- convert to the new perl5 framework
- convert USE_GMAKE to Uses
Approved by: portmgr (bapt@, blanket) |
1.5.6 14 Aug 2013 22:35:54 |
ak |
- Remove MAKE_JOBS_SAFE variable
Approved by: portmgr (bdrewery) |
1.5.6 27 Apr 2013 18:25:25 |
mva |
- Convert USE_ICONV=yes to USES=iconv
- Change USE_GNOME=pkgconfig|gnomehack to USES=pathfix|pkgconfig and
USE_GETTEXT=yes to USES=gettext while here |
1.5.6 22 Jan 2013 08:32:42 |
mandree |
Upgrade to new upstream release 1.5.6. |
1.5.5_1 20 Jan 2013 16:27:40 |
mandree |
Convert to OptionsNG.
Fix an installation error to fresh PREFIX directories, where a file was
installed one directory level too close to the root (lib/newsstar) and
renamed. |
1.5.5 20 Jan 2013 14:52:43 |
mandree |
Take maintainership. |
1.5.5 20 Jan 2013 13:46:44 |
wen |
- Update to 1.5.5
- Trim Makefile headers |
1.5.4_1 23 Sep 2011 22:26:39 |
amdmi3 |
- 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 |
1.5.4_1 12 Sep 2011 13:46:59 |
gabor |
- Track dependencies after databases/gdbm update |
1.5.4 09 Dec 2010 10:05:37 |
mandree |
Fix NOPORTDOCS builds if gmake isn't installed. |
1.5.4 08 Dec 2010 13:08:33 |
mandree |
Fix leftover files in NOPORTDOCS install. |
1.5.4 07 Dec 2010 13:04:38 |
mandree |
Add LICENSE=GPLv3 line.
Feature safe: yes |
1.5.4 07 Dec 2010 12:58:06 |
mandree |
- 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 |
1.5.3_1 04 Dec 2010 07:34:27 |
ade |
Sync to new bsd.autotools.mk |
1.5.3_1 01 Dec 2010 23:38:49 |
linimon |
Reset anray@FreeBSD.org due to maintainer-timeouts and no response to email.
Hat: portmgr |
1.5.3_1 16 Oct 2010 11:52:47 |
ade |
Punt autoconf267->autoconf268 |
1.5.3_1 07 Oct 2010 15:21:05 |
ade |
Migration of BROKEN ports from automake{19,110}->111 which will most
likely need to be looked at as and when they become unbroken. |
1.5.3_1 15 Sep 2010 18:35:24 |
ade |
Autotools update. Read ports/UPDATING 20100915 for details.
Approved by: portmgr (for Mk/bsd.port.mk part)
Tested by: Multiple -exp runs |
1.5.3 25 Oct 2009 09:14:29 |
erwin |
Mark BROKEN: does not build |
1.5.3 15 Oct 2009 12:46:11 |
anray |
- Update to 1.5.3
PR: ports/136807
Submitted by: Radim Kolar SF.NET <hsn@sendmail.cz> |
1.3.2 22 Aug 2009 00:32:25 |
amdmi3 |
- Switch SourceForge ports to the new File Release System: categories starting
with N |
1.3.2 07 Oct 2007 05:45:04 |
linimon |
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 |
1.3.2 16 Sep 2007 17:16:11 |
anray |
- 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> |
1.2.2 23 Jan 2006 23:46:39 |
edwin |
SHA256ify
Approved by: krion@ |
1.2.2 15 Dec 2005 20:34:46 |
anray |
Change email address for all my ports.
Approved by: sem(mentor) |
1.2.2 03 Mar 2005 09:10:34 |
krion |
Update to version 1.2.2
PR: ports/78326
Submitted by: maintainer |
1.2.1 30 Dec 2004 02:37:15 |
edwin |
[PATCH] change MAINTAINER email address for all my ports.
PR: ports/75559
Submitted by: Andrey Slusar <anray@inet.ua> |
1.2.1 24 Aug 2004 19:39:25 |
krion |
Update to 1.2.1
PR: ports/70908
Submitted by: maintainer |
1.2 20 Aug 2004 13:04:04 |
sem |
Update to 1.2
PR: ports/70676
Submitted by: maintainer |
1.1.1_1 14 Aug 2004 06:16:49 |
krion |
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 |
1.1.1 07 Aug 2004 20:48:45 |
krion |
Change maintainer's email.
PR: ports/70138
Submitted by: Andrey Slusar <vasallia@ukr.net> |
1.1.1 15 Jul 2004 03:13:38 |
sem |
Update to 1.1.1
PR: ports/68901
Submitted by: maintainer
Approved by: krion (mentor) |
1.1 14 May 2004 17:54:04 |
pav |
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> |