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From: shaman@mv.mv.com (Coranth Gryphon)
Subject: Re: NNTP and CNews ports/pkg
Message-ID: <D95Cr3.121@mv.mv.com>
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Sender: Coranth Gryphon <gryphon@healer.com>
Organization: MV Communications, Inc.
Date: Thu, 25 May 1995 18:30:39 GMT
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Jordan K. Hubbard <jkh@violet.berkeley.edu> wrote:
>Coranth Gryphon <shaman@mv.mv.com> wrote:
> +>Are NNTP and CNews planned to be existing packages or ports under 2.0.5R?
>
>jkh@time-> ls /usr/ports/news
>cnews nn trn
>Makefile inn nntp
>
I realize this :-) The problem is that the existing (2.0R) ports
of cnews and nntp require a lot of changes (#ifdef __FreeBSD__)
stuff to compile under 2.0R
Enough people have already recommended I drop those and go with INN
(which BTW compiled _much_ simpler :-)
-coranth
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