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Port details

news/inn 2.7.4_1

InterNetNews -- the Internet meets Netnews

Port info

Maintainer
kbowling@FreeBSD.org
Packages
latest: 2.7.4_1
Upstream
up to date
Last update
to 2.7.4_1 · ec77dc5a2c
Quarterly
2026Q4: 2.7.4_1
WWW
https://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/software/inn/
Links
cgit · VuXML · Report wrong data

Install

Package
# pkg install inn
installs 2.7.4_1 from latest; from quarterly (2026Q4) 2.7.4_1
Port
# cd /usr/ports/news/inn && make install clean
# make -C /usr/ports/news/inn config  # change options first
Size
1.6 MiB download · 5.9 MiB installed
Depends on
databases/db18 18.1.40_1, databases/p5-DBD-SQLite 1.76, databases/sqlite3 3.53.4,1, devel/gettext-runtime 1.0_1, graphics/p5-GD 2.83, lang/perl5.42 5.42.3, lang/python312 3.12.15, mail/p5-MIME-Tools 5.519,2, net/freebsd-uucp 1.07.4_4, news/libcanlock 3.3.4, security/gnupg 2.5.21
License
GPLv2 and ISCL
Options
13 of 16 on in the package: BERKELEYDB BLOCKLISTD CANLOCK DOCS EXAMPLES GNUPG KEYWORDS LARGE_FILES OPENSSL PYTHON SETGID_INEWS SQLITE UUCP_RNEWS
Show the 3 options that are off
KERBEROS SASL TAGGED_HASH

Packages by version and architecture

latest

FreeBSD versionamd64aarch64i386
FreeBSD 162.7.4_12.7.4_1–
FreeBSD 152.7.4_12.7.4_1–
FreeBSD 142.7.4_12.7.4_12.7.4_1

quarterly (2026Q4)

FreeBSD versionamd64aarch64i386
FreeBSD 152.7.4_12.7.4_1–
FreeBSD 142.7.4_12.7.4_12.7.4_1

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 2.7.4_1.

Fixed (2)

Show 2 fixed
VuXML entries whose affected range the packaged version has left.

Problem reports (0) · open in Bugzilla, most recently changed first

None.

Commits (202)

Dag-Erling Smørgrav (des) · 2.3.0
Fix bogon that made it impossible to stop innd.
23e2325e3c
Dag-Erling Smørgrav (des) · 2.3.0
Add forgotten post-install script
79025bdeb3
Dag-Erling Smørgrav (des) · 2.3.0
Fix portlint warnings.
ed91215abe
Dag-Erling Smørgrav (des) · 2.3.0
Upgrade to 2.3.0.

Note that unless you already have a /var/news or /var/spool/news directory,
the spool directory now defaults to /usr/local/news/spool.
ec58bb116a
Satoshi Asami (asami) · 2.2.2
Merge simpleftp.1 and mod-active.8 change from inn-stable/Makefile.

Submitted by:	bento
7fb242e7f6
Chris Piazza (cpiazza) · 2.2.2
Update with the new PORTNAME/PORTVERSION variables
f39d3f29e6
Torsten Blum (torstenb)
Upgrade to inn 2.2.2
d1aea0d50e
Satoshi Asami (asami)
/var/spool/news doesn't exist by default, so create it in pre-install.
facac52755
Torsten Blum (torstenb)
Upgrade to INN 2.2.1. One of the bugs that has been fixed is a buffer overflow in inews. Please upgrade to 2.2.1 if yo
765f45fe2e
Michael Haro (mharo)
FreeBSD.ORG -> FreeBSD.org

Prompted by PR:  13476, 13477
Submitted by:  KATO Tsuguru
65ab34a667
Peter Wemm (peter)
$Id$ -> $FreeBSD$
da8955d04b
Michael Haro (mharo)
chmod -> ${CHMOD} chown -> ${CHOWN}
5281212be3
Tim Vanderhoek (hoek)
Commit #3/4 to enforce caps, no period.

FWIW, checkout of these things took 5+hrs, staying on the local
.freebsd.org net w/o hitting the 'net at all.

As promised,

$ time cvs ci
real    67m51.701s
user    0m1.250s
sys     0m5.345s
dd9ff05a6a
Torsten Blum (torstenb)
Fix a typo.

Approved by: asami
Noticed by: Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu>,
            Jeremy Prior <jez@netcraft.co.uk>
de0ca7f1e2
Torsten Blum (torstenb)
Upgrade to inn 2.2-release
cb6e9e0121
Marc G. Fournier (scrappy)
A couple more Y2K links I've been able to find...
ebde058cc1
Tim Vanderhoek (hoek)
Don't use a variable that conflicts with bsd.port.mk USE_PERL5.

Making perl5 support automatic on 3.0 is left for someone who feels
like testing it.

Reported-by:    jdp
80af0678d0
Tim Vanderhoek (hoek)
Work with perl5.

Submitted by:	Don Croyle <croyle@gelemna.ft-wayne.in.us> (ports/7627)
a8ad95f8bd
Steve Price (steve)
Remove leading '[ -x' so this script works as intended.

PR:		6534
Submitted by:	Vadim Chekan <vadim@gc.lviv.ua>
a8a005dc0d
Andreas Klemm (andreas)
fix invalid ctlinnd option (stop) And closed PR 5620, since all things are fixed now Submitted by:	Adrian Wontroba <aw1@stade.co.uk>
a9575910ed
Andreas Klemm (andreas)
correct paths to use tcl from the ports collection if tcl support is wanted as requested by Satoshi, I hope the port maintainer agrees here.
0416ae8e3a
Andreas Klemm (andreas)
Add some comments for compiling the port under -current in Makefile Add two commented out changes to scripts/configure, that easily can be activated, to compile inn on a -current system, which doesn't have TCL in the base OS for ports backward compatibility.
525f46b32a
Torsten Blum (torstenb)
- upgrade to 1.7.2 - install $PREFIX/etc/rc.d/innd.sh (start and stop) - change group of $PREFIX/bin/rnews from uucp to dialer to work around   a problem when using inn with uucp (rnews is not world-executable to prevent   injection of faked articles) - don't install binaries in $PREFIX/etc - use /var/{spool,}/news/tmp instead of /var/tmp for rnews, otherwise   rename will fail
3af1206c91
Torsten Blum (torstenb)
Upgrade to 1.5.1sec2
d2277adf70
Philippe Charnier (charnier)
Correctly Enable/Disable PERL5 support according to value of USE_PERL5. PR:		ports/3125
3373e4deb6
Torsten Blum (torstenb)
Upgrade to 1.5.1
ab58b4a30f
Satoshi Asami (asami)
Add files/md5 entries for files whose checksum should be ignored as well. Requires rev. 1.239 of bsd.port.mk.
b7a86be739
Masafumi Max NAKANE (max)
Ooops, there was a backslash missing for continuing line.
40c0995b40
Masafumi Max NAKANE (max)
mkdir -> ${MKDIR} Use MAN[1358] variables to compress man pages.
da24912162
Masafumi Max NAKANE (max)
No `.' is needed at the end of the reason string for NO_CDROM, NO_PACKAGE, RESTRICTED or BROKEN. Pointed-out by:	asami
86913ca557
Masafumi Max NAKANE (max)
Now, string describing reason for defining these variables must be set when you define NO_CDROM, NO_PACKAGE or RESTRICTED instead of just ``yes''.
3e17de1c73
Satoshi Asami (asami)
Use MAN? macros.  CATEGORIES+= -> CATEGORIES.
300c45cf2e
Satoshi Asami (asami)
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
Torsten Blum (torstenb)
patch file has been renamed on PATH_SITE

OK'ed by: asami
40f02df961
Torsten Blum (torstenb)
Back out Pauls update to unoff4

OK'ed by: gpalmer
348c92577c
Paul Traina (pst)
Update to inn1.4unoff4
91af19b340
Torsten Blum (torstenb)
- use systems CFLAGS - fix the load average check in nnrpd

Approved By: asami
a922e85ca2
Satoshi Asami (asami)
Move NO_PACKAGE to right place, also fix typo "to many" -> "too many".

Stepping on the toe of: torstenb
3597efba4b
Torsten Blum (torstenb)
add libinn.a and it's header files to the package list
dce243e0ee
Torsten Blum (torstenb)
- add an `update' target (won't overwrite  configuration files - install libinn.a and it's header files
ddd2e38f20
Torsten Blum (torstenb)
the patches has been moved to another directory...
34750bc348
Torsten Blum (torstenb)
add a NO_PACKAGE=yes
32827e75fd
Satoshi Asami (asami)
Fix these bugs.

- The expiration processing fails when attempting to store a long message-id
  in the new DBZ database. If left uncorrected, a disk full condition is
  likely to occur.
- When innxmit (on the master) encounters a news article that is
  cross-posted to LOTS of other newsgroups it segmentation faults.

Submitted by:	torstenb
9fe6ec35b8
Satoshi Asami (asami)
Add public patch for select loop problem. Submitted by:	torstenb
cf06af978e
Satoshi Asami (asami)
Compress manpages for distrib.pats.5 passwd.nntp.5 too.  This solves the packaging problem.
c3ef9a1872
Satoshi Asami (asami)
Fix the post-install target (gzipping manpages).  inews.1 was missing the ".1" suffix and something apperaed twice.  It still doesn't package though (distrib.pats.5.gz and passwd.nntp.5.gz are missing).
a580214845
Torsten Blum (torstenb)
manpages are compressed now...
bdafc1dbf9
Torsten Blum (torstenb)
- add myself as MAINTAINER
7d6e6ba0ad
Satoshi Asami (asami)
Makefiles of news ports cleaned up!
e87af43c40
Jordan K. Hubbard (jkh)
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