Bug 72202 – New ebuild: nntp//rss

• Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Gunnar Wrobel (RETIRED) 2004-11-23 02:01:26 UTC]

From the nntp//rss website:

"nntp//rss is a Java-based bridge between RSS feeds and NNTP clients, enabling you to read your favorite RSS syndicated content within your existing NNTP newsreader. RSS feeds are represented as NNTP newsgroups, providing a simple, straightforward and familiar environment for news reading."

This has been a very useful application to me so I tried to establish an ebuild for it. But since it is my first java-pkg ebuild I am happy about all suggestions on how to improve the ebuild.

Is it acceptable to have the jdbm classes as binary jar in the package? 
Is the init script ok?


Reproducible: Always
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[Comment 1 Gunnar Wrobel (RETIRED) 2004-11-23 02:02:04 UTC]

Created attachment 44530 [details]
nntp//rss ebuild

[Comment 2 Gunnar Wrobel (RETIRED) 2004-11-23 02:03:08 UTC]

Created attachment 44531 [details]
files/nntprss-sanitize.patch (Removes windows specific code and fixes run-time dependencies)

[Comment 3 Gunnar Wrobel (RETIRED) 2004-11-23 02:03:35 UTC]

Created attachment 44532 [details]
files/nntprss-init (init.d script to start the server)

[Comment 4 Gunnar Wrobel (RETIRED) 2004-11-23 02:04:42 UTC]

Created attachment 44533 [details]
files/nntprss-config.xml (config file for nntp//rss)

[Comment 5 Gunnar Wrobel (RETIRED) 2004-11-23 02:05:08 UTC]

Created attachment 44534 [details]
files/nntprss (bash script to start nntp//rss)

[Comment 6 Gunnar Wrobel (RETIRED) 2004-11-23 02:05:45 UTC]

Created attachment 44535 [details]
files/log4j.properties (config file that sets logging properties)

[Comment 7 Gunnar Wrobel (RETIRED) 2004-11-23 02:08:19 UTC]

Created attachment 44536 [details]
files/jdbm-0.20.jar (binary jar file that contains the jdbm classes)

[Comment 8 Jan Brinkmann (RETIRED) 2004-11-23 10:07:27 UTC]

i havn't had the time to look over all of your work but what i can say is that you should create an ebuild for jdbm. there is sourcecode available (http://jdbm.sourceforge.net/) and we try not to add more binary ebuilds to the portage tree if we can avoid it be creating source based ebuilds. also see:

* http://www.gentoo-wiki.com/Gentoo_Java_Policy
* http://www.gentoo-wiki.com/Why_Build_Java_Code_From_Source

[Comment 9 Gunnar Wrobel (RETIRED) 2005-02-06 04:55:10 UTC]

Created attachment 50529 [details]
nntp//rss ebuild

Took me a while to get working on the jdbm source ebuild. I added it now as bug
#80972. This is the new nntp//rss ebuild that requires the source jdbm ebuild.

[Comment 10 Gunnar Wrobel (RETIRED) 2005-02-06 04:56:05 UTC]

Created attachment 50530 [details]
Modified path to link to the jdbm library location

[Comment 11 Gunnar Wrobel (RETIRED) 2007-10-17 04:34:40 UTC]

while I still use this upstream has been dead for years so I'll close this.