Newsstar is a very flexible solution for all needs as regards news up- and downloading. The frontend is written in perl; backend in C. To further improve down/uploading news it implements multiple threads down- or uploading simultaneous. To keep interaction with the program as simple as possible, the perl frontend invokes a custom filter for each news posting, if needed. That gives it the flexibility for many new applications. For example I used newsstar for some time to automatically sign my news postings. (Example <20040707033101.3e8f1d1a%40mauricem.mauricem.de.vu>).
Created attachment 38435 [details] Newsstar-1.2.1 Ebuild ;-)
ok, some comments to your ebuild maurice: - RDEPEND="${DEPEND}" should be removed. RDEPEND gets automatically set to DEPEND if not set - RESTRICT="nomirror" should be removed as we don't rely on foreign mirrors - SRC_URI="http://dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/newsstar/${P}.tar.gz" should be changed to SRC_URI="mirror://sourceforge/newsstar/${P}.tar.gz" to allow users to select a specific sourceforge mirror via /etc/portage/mirrors. - best would be to get rid of the perl dependency, as it's unnecessary. if i'm right you use perl to strip .sample from the files. this can also be done with basename and a for loop in bash - initial KEYWORDS should always be ~arch - virtual/glibc is deprecated. virtual/libc is now the virtual, but as a libc is always installed from the profiles the extra dependenc on a libc is unnecessary
> - best would be to get rid of the perl dependency, as it's unnecessary. if > i'm right you use perl to strip .sample from the files. this can also be > done with basename and a for loop in bash *shock* Don't! Once again: | To keep interaction with the program as simple as possible, the perl frontend | invokes a custom filter for each news posting, if needed. When you call newsstar, you actually execute a perl script, which executes newsstar.bin. newsstar.bin was written in C and can be executed standalone, however that does not make much sense. As perl gets used anyway, we can use perl to copy the file. Otherwise it would depend on bash, because I do not know whether all shells provide the for-loop you intend to use (My csh knows foreach and while, but no for-loop...). I will use your other hints to provide an enhanced ebuild, only exception is that it makes sense to change virtual/glibc to sys-libs/glibc, because I did not test with any other libc and that was what I initially intended.
Created attachment 38647 [details] newsstar-1.2.1.ebuild
sorry, my bad, i didn't look that far into the package. just looked at the ebuild.
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