- pgpverify now supports using GnuPG to check signatures (rather than
PGP) without the pgpgpg wrapper. GnuPG can check both old-style RSA
signatures and new OpenPGP signatures and is recommended over PGP 2.6.
If you have GnuPG installed, pgpverify will use it rather than PGP,
which means that you may have to create a new key ring for GnuPG to
use to verify signatures if you were previously using PGP.
- An item that was noted in NEWS below but was inadvertently left out of
nnrpd has actually been added this time: users can no longer post
articles containing Approved: headers to moderated groups by default;
they must be specifically given that permission with the access:
parameter in readers.conf. See the man page for more details.
- Two bugs in repacking overview index files and a reliability bug with
writing overview data were all fixed in the tradindexed overview
method, hopefully making it somewhat more reliable, particularly for
makehistory.
- If rc.news.local exists in the INN binary directory, it will be run
with the start or stop argument whenever rc.news is run. This is
available as a hook for local startup and shutdown code.
- The default history table hash sizes were increased because a
too-small value can cause serious performance problems (whereas a
too-large hash just wastes a bit of disk space).
- The sample control.ctl file has been extensively updated.
- Wildmat exclusions (@ and !) should now work properly in storage.conf
newsgroup patterns.
- The implementation of the -w flag for expireover was fixed;
previously, the value given to -w to change expireover's notion of the
current time was scaled by too much.
- Various other more minor bug fixes, standards compliance fixes, and
documentation improvements.
Remove `-p' from mkdir arguments, it is already part of ${MKDIR}.
While here substitute a couple of ${PREFIX} by `%D' in
`@exec ${MKDIR} ...' lines and add a couple of missing `%D' in such lines too!
as news/leafnode.
Leafnode is a USENET software package designed for small sites, with a
few tens of readers and only a slow link to the net.
The work in this package is based on that of Ingolf Steinbach
in PR#13830. wiz@ made some suggestions as well. Thanks to both of them.
cg is a semi-automatic newsgroup binary downloader. It assembles
parts based on subject headers and then offers them in an editor for
the user to choose which files he really wants.
It supports decoding data in the following formats:
uuencode (both single- and multi-posting binaries)
MIME (multipart/mixed, message/partial;
base64, quoted printable, x-uuencode)
yEnc
3.0.1 Sat Apr 6 01:59:56 EST 2002 (ap.pog.gia.tu.ra)
* compat: update config.sub and config.guess to autoguess
Darwin / MacOSx
* compat: update ./configure to autoconf-2.53
3.0-b2 Fri Apr 5 01:32:28 EST 2002 (oneiromancy)
* new: README.pam
* change: use $libexec/nntpcache.debug for debug symbols
* new: permit ':' and '@' in username and password
definitions. some At-Home & MS passport
controlled (ugh) were of this format
* compat: be more flexible in closing and re-assigning
file-descriptors. fixes some bogus openlog()/
closelog() implementations
* change: doc/proff.style NAZI's
* compat: eliminate pid_t warning in src/debug.c
* compat: change "stat" to "status" for
contrib/newshound/newshound.c. "stat" conflicted
with the stat.h definition under AIX-5.1
* change: don't try and debug the debug task if it
can no-longer read messages from other
tasks
* new: explicitly tell users to use 'nntpcached -n'
for INSTALL step 8
3.0-b1 Sat Mar 30 11:51:29 EST 2002 (Enantiomorphosis)
* new: idiot proof nntpcache.servers configuration
* new: Make the decision to use a new mmap backing
file on restart configuration via "refreshMmap"
* change: explicitly enable core dumps
* bugfix: fix bogus log message in src/xover.c
* new: prevent runaway debug analysis by checking
at most once every half hour
* change: use mode, as opposed to flock/lockf locking for
cached articles/headers. this technique is more
reliable over nfs and newserver/reader crashes
* new: robustify newsgroup structure locking
* compat: under MacOSX, cc reports as gcc, but gcc CPP is
not "gcc -E"
* compat: AIX needs -lbsd for flock()
* new: verbosely describe "server rebuild in progress" error
* change: don't warn on seeing (\r[^\n])+\r\n, as this
seems to be embedded in quite a few wild articles
* bugfix: fix a few (usually rare) xover bugs
* change: reorganise xover opening/locking/writing
functions
* compat: parse numbers representing time_t
so as not to depend on the size of time_t
(Tru64/OSF/alpha needed this)
* compat: remove extra ';' in src/http.c which caused
SUNSpro (Solaris CC) to choke
* new: improved xover expiry
* change: remove a warning in src/bregex.c. Note that the
other warnings (at least under gcc and SUNSpro
are bogus)
* compat: use strrchr instead of rindex in src/authinfo_pipe.c
* compat: EXPORT PAM functions only after pam types
have been defined
* compat: PAM compatability for Solaris and FreeBSD
(tested on Solaris-8.x and FreeBSD-4.x)
* compat: at least one newsreader used AUTHINFO with
no arguments simply to check that the command
was available. In this case return
"350 Continue with authorization sequence"
* compat: smarter scripts/genextern.sh
* compat: add/reorder includes for mmap/mmap_tests.c
* bugfix: don't use autoconf to generate mk/rules.mk,
as automake uses this file before configure
time.
* compat: add SPT_PADCHAR definition for Linux in
libproff/setproctiltle.c
* change: add comment about bogus gcc warning in
libproff/pattern.c
* change: update doc/proff.style
* change: move newshound config file to /etc/newshound/
* bugfix: various newshound bugfixes
* new: perl newshound contributed by jer@gweep.net
* bugfix: add missing /* */ pair in log.h (amazingly
gcc compiled the previous code without
complaint)
* compat: wrap all GNU C extensions in GNUC_EXT
macros, including extensions exported by
scripts/genextern.sh (EXPORT macros)
* compat: explicitly check for GNU make variations
at ./configure time and give copious help
if GNU make can not be located. Explicitly
tell the user to use the discovered GNU make.
* bugfix: CPP does not define build symbols which
are needed by scripts/genextern.sh as
opposed to cc -E. Always check for cc -E
at ./configure time
* new: NEWS file
* change: modify INSTALL so even the pentagon can
understand nntpcache builds with GNUMake
* change: modify INSTALL to reflect new mailinglist details
* bugfix: extensive three pass automake hackery to force
regeneration of .ext's at the correct time and in
the correct order
* bugfix: sometimes a HEAD followed by a BODY when neither
was previously cached resulted additional header
characters in the body. Triggered by Pine.
* compat: don't use creeping bsd featureisms (warn,<err.h>)
in libproff
all dependencies on packages depending on "png" which contain shared
libraries, all for the (imminent) update to the "png" package.
[List courtesy of John Darrow, courtesy of "bulk-build".]
Summary of changes:
- removal of USE_GTEXINFO
- addition of mk/texinfo.mk
- inclusion of this file in package Makefiles requiring it
- `install-info' substituted by `${INSTALL_INFO}' in PLISTs
- tuning of mk/bsd.pkg.mk:
removal of USE_GTEXINFO
INSTALL_INFO added to PLIST_SUBST
`${INSTALL_INFO}' replace `install-info' in target rules
print-PLIST target now generate `${INSTALL_INFO}' instead of `install-info'
- a couple of new patch files added for a handful of packages
- setting of the TEXINFO_OVERRIDE "switch" in packages Makefiles requiring it
- devel/cssc marked requiring texinfo 4.0
- a couple of packages Makefiles were tuned with respect of INFO_FILES and
makeinfo command usage
See -newly added by this commit- section 10.24 of Packages.txt for
further information.
Bug fixes include:
* Removed code that unpacks "shell archives" as it causes a serious
security hole.
* Even when using read_active, slrn would enter all subscribed groups.
* force_authentication was ignored when re-connecting.
* In rare cases, the need to send authentication data was not recognized.
* Interpret "news:" URLs enclosed in angle brackets correctly.
* Scorefiles get "include"d only once (no more loops).
* Unsubscribed groups are no longer moved to the bottom of the newsrc file.
* Multiple '%s' in (non_)Xbrowser are handled correctly (fixes segfault).
Minor UI changes:
* Tagging ('*') an article marks it as unread.
* The new default of 'reject_long_lines' is 2.
* When confirm_actions is set, catching up a group requires confirmation.
* Complain if user specifies a nonexistant config file on the command line.
* Made new_subject_breaks_threads a bitmapped value (see manual for details)
On Unix, gettext is used to translate messages.
Currently, the following translations are available:
- da.po (Danish; Byrial Jensen)
- de.po (German; Jens Wahnes)
- it.po (Italian; Emmanuele Bassi)
- nl.po (Dutch; Jelmer Vernooij)
- pl.po (Polish; Jarek Baczynski / Arkadiusz Sochala)
- ru.po (Russian; Andy Shevchenko)
The new function "view_scores" (bound to 'v' in article mode) shows you
which scorefile entries matched the current article. Assigning names to
your entries (see score.txt for details) will make this even more useful.
The new intrinsic functions "register_hook" and "unregister_hook" allow
the definition of multiple functions for most hooks.
An autosave copy of the newsrc file is created whenever you leave a
group. This can be turned off with no_autosave.
Scoring on "Bytes:" (by integer value, not regexp) is possible. In
header_display_format, you can use '%b' to display the number of bytes.
This is available when reading overview data only (e.g. _not_ in slrnpull)!
In *_display_format and *_status_line, the additional modifier '*' can be
used to center justify text in a field of a given width.
slrn accepts 8bit characters in newsgroup names.
Updated cleanscore, see contrib/NEWS.cleanscore
The code that allows running slrnpull as an unpriviledged user can now
be turned on by passing --enable-setgid-code to configure. It no longer
makes outgoing postings group writeable.
The bottom line now has its own color object ("message").
New intrinsic functions get_fg_color and get_bg_color that return the
current color of an object.
In the readline keymap, the new functions "delbol" (^U) and "delbow"
(^W) will delete to the beginning of the line or the word, respectively.
In selection lists (e.g. used by color.sl), pressing a letter takes you to
the next (or previous, if shift was held down) entry that starts with it.
ew descriptors in header_status_line: %h, %l and %k now stand for the
number of high / low scoring / killed articles, respectively.
New intrinsic functions read_mini_variable (tab completes variable
names) and read_mini_integer. See macros/varset.sl for an example
(easy interactive setting of variables at runtime).
pkgsrc. Instead, a new variable PKGREVISION is invented that can get
bumped independent of DISTNAME and PKGNAME.
Example #1:
DISTNAME= foo-X.Y
PKGREVISION= Z
=> PKGNAME= foo-X.YnbZ
Example #2:
DISTNAME= barthing-X.Y
PKGNAME= bar-X.Y
PKGREVISION= Z
=> PKGNAME= bar=X.YnbZ (!)
On subsequent changes, only PKGREVISION needs to be bumped, no more risk
of getting DISTNAME changed accidentally.
redefines about which buildlink.mk files would care is BUILDLINK_X11_DIR,
which points to the location of the X11R6 hierarchy used during building.
If x11.buildlink.mk isn't included, then BUILDLINK_X11_DIR defaults to
${X11BASE} (set in bsd.pkg.mk), so its value is always safe to use. Remove
the ifdefs surrounding the use of BUILDLINK_X11_DIR in tk/buildlink.mk and
revert changes to move x11.buildlink.mk before the other buildlink.mk files.
use X11_BUILDLINK_MK as a test value. Generally just reordering the
inclusions so that x11.buildlink.mk comes before the other buildlink.mk
files will make everthing work.
foo-* to foo-[0-9]*. This is to cause the dependencies to match only the
packages whose base package name is "foo", and not those named "foo-bar".
A concrete example is p5-Net-* matching p5-Net-DNS as well as p5-Net. Also
change dependency examples in Packages.txt to reflect this.
