./news/newsx, NNTP news exchange program

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Branch: CURRENT, Version: 1.6nb3, Package name: newsx-1.6nb3, Maintainer: pkgsrc-users

Newsx is an NNTP client for Unix. It will connect to a remote NNTP server and
post outgoing articles batched by the news system, as well as fetch incoming
articles.

It provides the NNTP capabilities required for small local news spools on
installations with NNTP access only through limited ISP accounts. It works well
via a dialup SLIP/PPP connection.

Newsx is also well suited for large spools with normal feeds, being used for
pulling newsgroups from specific NNTP servers that are not distributed in the
usual manner. Since newsx obeys the normal news spool configuration file and
requires little or no specific configuration, the administrative burden should
be minimized.


Required to run:
[news/inn]

Required to build:
[pkgtools/cwrappers]

Master sites:

Filesize: 295.724 KB

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   2021-10-26 13:09:37 by Nia Alarie | Files touched by this commit (27) 
Log message:
news: Replace RMD160 checksums with BLAKE2s checksums

All checksums have been double-checked against existing RMD160 and
SHA512 hashes
   2021-10-07 16:45:00 by Nia Alarie | Files touched by this commit (27) 
Log message:
news: Remove SHA1 hashes for distfiles
   2018-01-01 23:30:04 by Roland Illig | Files touched by this commit (537) 
Log message:
Sort PLIST files.

Unsorted entries in PLIST files have generated a pkglint warning for at
least 12 years. Somewhat more recently, pkglint has learned to sort
PLIST files automatically. Since pkglint 5.4.23, the sorting is only
done in obvious, simple cases. These have been applied by running:

  pkglint -Cnone,PLIST -Wnone,plist-sort -r -F
   2017-12-24 11:04:36 by Thomas Klausner | Files touched by this commit (1) 
Log message:
newsx: Comment out dead sites
   2015-11-03 00:49:48 by Alistair G. Crooks | Files touched by this commit (19) 
Log message:
Add SHA512 digests for distfiles for news category

Existing SHA1 digests verified, all found to be the same on the
machine holding the existing distfiles (morden).  Existing SHA1
digests retained for now as an audit trail.
   2014-09-12 09:58:12 by S.P.Zeidler | Files touched by this commit (3) 
Log message:
small build fix to support PKG_DESTDIR_SUPPORT="user-destdir"
   2012-10-08 14:27:42 by Aleksej Saushev | Files touched by this commit (18) 
Log message:
Drop PKG_DESTDIR_SUPPORT setting, "user-destdir" is default these days.
   2010-11-01 01:08:16 by Thomas Klausner | Files touched by this commit (31) 
Log message:
Reset maintainer.