Unbreak, portlint, and cleanup pkg/PLIST. NOTE: some of the permissions may be wrong but I tried to remain faithful to what I believed them to be. It was hard to tell since this port was severely broken to start.ca3df8f95c
Port details
news/cnews cr.g_21
News server
Port info
- Maintainer
- dinoex@FreeBSD.org
- Packages
- latest: cr.g_21
- Upstream
- up to date
- Last update
- to cr.g_21 · f135cb492f
- Quarterly
- 2026Q4: cr.g_21
- WWW
- https://www.dinoex.net/c-news.html
- Links
- cgit · VuXML · Report wrong data
Install
- Package
# pkg install cnewsinstalls cr.g_21 fromlatest; fromquarterly(2026Q4) cr.g_21- Port
# cd /usr/ports/news/cnews && make install clean# make -C /usr/ports/news/cnews config # change options first
- Size
- 296 KiB download · 1.2 MiB installed
- Depends on
- security/pgpgpg 0.13_5
- License
- BSD2CLAUSE
- Options
- 2 of 5 on in the package: EXAMPLES PGPGPG
Show the 3 options that are off
GPGPV PGPIN SENDMAIL - pkg-message
Shown after installing
you MUST change the configuration of this news setup: cd to /var/lib/news and change the following files... mailname, whoami, organization, mailpaths, sys, readnews.ctl, postdefltgroup to suit your local system and news topology. check that you have vaild aliases in report.ctl, so any problem can be reported. for ease of administration you may add a shell: pw usermod news -d /var/lib/news -s /bin/csh
Packages by version and architecture
latest
| FreeBSD version | amd64 | aarch64 | i386 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FreeBSD 16 | cr.g_21 | cr.g_21 | – |
| FreeBSD 15 | cr.g_21 | cr.g_21 | – |
| FreeBSD 14 | cr.g_21 | cr.g_21 | cr.g_21 |
quarterly (2026Q4)
| FreeBSD version | amd64 | aarch64 | i386 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FreeBSD 15 | cr.g_21 | cr.g_21 | – |
| FreeBSD 14 | cr.g_21 | cr.g_21 | cr.g_21 |
version as in the ports tree (latest) or the most common one (quarterly) · different version · ✗ not built · – no packages for this platform. Package sets that have not been rebuilt for 60 days are left out.
Unaddressed and VuXML only (0)
No unaddressed CVE and nothing reported by
pkg audit for the packaged version cr.g_21.Fixed (0)
No VuXML entries for this package.
Problem reports (0) · open in Bugzilla, most recently changed first
None.
Commits (135)
NEWSFLASH! Manpages to be deleted from PLISTs!def64e2613
Yes, we know this is C-news. The question is, What _is_ C-news? (Note that this is marked BROKEN, anyways...)450b9d8a61
Mark BROKEN. Fails while installing bin/inews. Confirmed by: asami0c8193090b
news/{lib,cnewsbin}545dcef9f2Oops, fix man page compression.6ec78dcaf0
Compress a bunch of manpages. Remove unnecessary @ directives from PLISTs. Note: I know that this is going to break some symlinks and/or .so includes, I will back some of these out as I run into these during package building.c98cfd116d
Use MAN? macros. CATEGORIES+= -> CATEGORIES.300c45cf2e
Oh my goodness! Satoshi is finally fed up and decided to "clean up" all the COMMENTs! No package names, no version numbers, no "this is absolutix-3.1.2" type comments that have zero information contents. Now, without any bad examples to follow, nobody has an excuse to import a port with those kind of comments. :) Phew! 238 ports modified!95137d2010
Add libcnews.a and a corresponding @exec ranlib. I'm not exactly sure why this was missing, but since it's installed by the "make install" rule, it definitely should be in the package.44e7471a07
Include include/dbz.h in the package. Noticed by: the nntp port9d395164e4
distribution was updated816e71aa21
To the do-install target:
(1) Add a "rm -f ${PREFIX}/bin/inews", install was failing when it tried
to overwrite an inews installed by a separate package (it su's first).
(2) Add "-c" to install lines of manpages.da99bf2171use /var/news/over.view for the overview database (NOV)2d432a43de
name all lib/news/* and libexec/news/*276df59433
Delete the @cd into man directories and append man/man? to all the man pages.fba225d3b0
Add "-" in front of "ln -s" so that it won't be fatal if the link already exists.6db9c10ff1
{WRKSRC} -> ${WRKSRC}. Conical hat goes to adam. :p76573ce60cTake out invocation of fake-pkg from do-install target. It is now done in the main install target itself.069e6920d0
Updated for new bsd.port.mk.a12f523a73
use ${PREFIX} instead of /usr/local963090c1f4install dbz.h and libcnews.a so that nntp and anything else that might use them can pick them up from /usr/local/{include,lib}88a4b39650Makefiles of news ports cleaned up!e87af43c40
Add CATEGORIES lines to a whole bunch of port Makefiles. Some ports are in multiple catagories - I'll expect the various MAINTAINERS to make further adjustments (and add any KEYWORDS lines) themselves.ac3066bf75
One more of this extra tabs in a Makefile.659c6f9340
use "echo | su" instead of "su -c"e1f99584be
Changes for current release...d3b45beaa4
Fix for PR ports/149 - MD5 checksum wrong for current cnews distfilef9f5ac435f
Next batch of MD5 checksum filesbc2efc5c4d
Changes for latest release57dd0aec63
added /usr/local/bin to newspathe0074d4f8b
4.4 fixes. Also added all: target to makefile2319551385
More fixes... 'report' now gets its headers straight. 'doexpire' now handles archiving correctly.3da7d47bdb
This file originally contained a makefile fix for the regression tests. Now it also contains the following fixes... silence nntpxmit stats which was causing 'sendbatches' to complain and give up after successfully sending the first batch. 'mkov' no longer dumps core if there is no Xref: header.e119284cb3
Cnews cleanup release from Henry Spencer and Geoff Collyer03a5363059