build and install.)
Update to 0.27.1 version.
Changes from ChangeLog:
2004-12-20 v0.27.1:
* Fix error in configure script when printing exceptions not found message, du
e to unquoted string. (Reported by M.J. Soft)
* Fix -G* when NGETCACHE != NGETHOME. (Reported by Steven Adeff)
* Fix midinfo and newsgroups files not honoring NGETCACHE/cachedir setting. (R
eported by Christian Marillat)
* Allow absolute paths in --text=mbox:<filename>. (Requested by Volker Wysk)
* Support tab as the field separator in XPAT results, for Newsplex server supp
ort. (Requested by Mark Blain)
* -a no longer gives an error if the server doesn't support LIST NEWSGROUPS(wh
ich retrieves newsgroup descriptions.)
* Fix printing a warning when loading newsgroups list which contains descripti
ons of groups which no server actually carries. (Reported by Frederick Bruckman)
* Fix problems loading group descriptions from newsgroups list which contain t
abs. (Reported by Frederick Bruckman)
in the process. (More information on tech-pkg.)
Bump PKGREVISION and BUILDLINK_DEPENDS of all packages using libtool and
installing .la files.
Bump PKGREVISION (only) of all packages depending directly on the above
via a buildlink3 include.
Based upon the package provided by Joel CARNAT in PR pkg/26134
nget is a command line nntp file grabber.
It automatically pieces together multipart postings for easy
retrieval, even substituting parts from multiple servers and
newsgroups. Handles disconnects gracefully, resuming after the
last part succesfully downloaded.
features:
* Automatic multi-part post joining
* Automatic binary decoding (using uulib)
* Caches header data for quick access
* Full multi-server support, transparently joining parts
from different servers
* Full multi-group support, transparently joining parts from
multiple newsgroups
* Automatic retries on network errors
* Resumes after the last part successfully downloaded
* Dupe file detection to avoid unneeded downloads
* Select what to retrieve based upon a regular expresson (-r),
or even a more complex expression (-R) based upon any of the
file's subject, author, lines, bytes, # of parts we have,
# of parts req, date, age, messageid, and references.
* Search for newsgroups based on their names and/or descriptions
* Automatic handling of PAR and PAR2 files retrieves only as many
recovery files as necessary to repair any missing/damaged files.
