Bug 16378 – Leafnode2 ebuild not in Portage tree.

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Joe Stroller 2003-02-25 19:59:06 UTC]

Leafnode is an excellent & popular proxying Usenet server. It characterises 
the "less is more" philosophy of Gentoo, and is as suitable for running as a 
news spool on state of the art desktops, as it for older systems, and domestic 
network-servers without GUI.

eBuilds are available to leafnode 1.9.31, however most of the active 
development has for some time been focusing on leafnode-2. Leafnode has a 
reutation for robusness & reliability, and IMO the "alpha" versions of 
leafnode-2 are presently to a standard of the release versions of many other 
packages.

Is there some reason of which I am not aware, that an ebuild is not available 
for leafnode-2..?

I have for some weeks been running leafnode-2.0.0.alpha20021229a on my 24/7 
Mandrake system, but I'm in the process of migrating to Gentoo. My reason for 
making this request is that I am reluctant to lose some of the features which 
are presently available to me, but not in an ebuild.

I apologise if I have misread the documentation, but it is my understanding 
that this is the correct place to make an ebuild request. It seems kinda rude 
to say "make this ebuild for me" - so I guess the alternative is have a crack 
at it myself & to submit that for inclusion. Unfortunately, my shell 
programming is not too hot, and the thought causes me some tredipation. But I 
will have a go if the Gentoo development team feel that leafnode-2 should be 
encouraged.

[Comment 1 Joe Stroller 2003-02-25 20:05:39 UTC]

Whups! I forgot to say:
the URL for the leafnode-2 site is 
<http://www-dt.e-technik.uni-dortmund.de/~ma/leafnode/beta/>

Cheers,

Stroller.

[Comment 2 Martin Holzer (RETIRED) 2003-03-12 13:49:44 UTC]

plz create an ebuild and attach it

[Comment 3 Torsten Veller (RETIRED) 2003-05-08 12:09:50 UTC]

Created attachment 11692 [details]
leafnode-2.0.0.alpha2003050a

Here is an ebuild for the latest leafnode development version.
It builds. It works. But it's not perfect:
- the old ipv6-support-part doesnt work
  (so i commented it out)
- i dont know if keepdir /etc/leafnode/local.groups is correct
  (or is it dodir?)
- there are a lot of changes between 1.9? and 2.0. so it is important
  to study the README

You must download groups and groupinfos

[Comment 4 Stewart (RETIRED) 2003-06-26 23:46:30 UTC]

Thanks for the ebuild; it's comitted. Give 'er a shot and see how it works!