Hi everyone,
Could a couple people look at the new TIN page I made? It's rendered
on anduin at
http://anduin.linuxfromscratch.org/~dnicholson/blfs/basicnet/tin.html
The dependencies are a nightmare. I'm attaching the diff.
--
Dan
Index: introduction/welcome/changelog.xml
===================================================================
--- introduction/welcome/changelog.xml (revision 5893)
+++ introduction/welcome/changelog.xml (working copy)
@@ -40,15 +40,19 @@
</listitem>
-->
+
<listitem>
- <para>April 19th, 2006</para>
+ <para>April 20th, 2006</para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
+ <para>[dnicholson] - Added TIN version 1.8.1 to the book. Removed
+ slrn. Thanks to Alexander Patrakov.</para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
<para>[bdubbs] - Updated to glib-2.10.2.</para>
</listitem>
- </itemizedlist>
+ </itemizedlist>
</listitem>
-
<listitem>
<para>April 19th, 2006</para>
Index: introduction/welcome/credits.xml
===================================================================
--- introduction/welcome/credits.xml (revision 5893)
+++ introduction/welcome/credits.xml (working copy)
@@ -258,7 +258,7 @@
</listitem>
<listitem>
- <para>Gimp-Print and libusb:
+ <para>Gimp-Print, libusb and TIN:
<emphasis>Alexander E. Patrakov</emphasis></para>
</listitem>
Index: basicnet/mailnews/tin.xml
===================================================================
--- basicnet/mailnews/tin.xml (revision 0)
+++ basicnet/mailnews/tin.xml (revision 0)
@@ -0,0 +1,275 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
+<!DOCTYPE sect1 PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.4//EN"
+ "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.4/docbookx.dtd"; [
+ <!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../../general.ent">
+ %general-entities;
+
+ <!ENTITY tin-download-http "http://gd.tuwien.ac.at/infosys/newsreaders/tin/v1.8/tin-&tin-version;.tar.bz2";>
+ <!ENTITY tin-download-ftp "ftp://ftp.tin.org/pub/news/clients/tin/v1.8/tin-&tin-version;.tar.bz2";>
+ <!ENTITY tin-md5sum "efeecdf72683213d9e705c28de87ea2e">
+ <!ENTITY tin-size "1.4 MB">
+ <!ENTITY tin-buildsize "12.4 MB">
+ <!ENTITY tin-time "0.4 SBU">
+]>
+
+<sect1 id="tin" xreflabel="tin-&tin-version;">
+ <?dbhtml filename="tin.html"?>
+
+ <sect1info>
+ <othername>$LastChangedBy: randy $</othername>
+ <date>$Date: 2006-04-10 11:35:11 -0700 (Mon, 10 Apr 2006) $</date>
+ <keywordset>
+ <keyword role="package">tin-&tin-version;.tar</keyword>
+ <keyword role="ftpdir">tin</keyword>
+ </keywordset>
+ </sect1info>
+
+ <title>TIN-&tin-version;</title>
+
+ <indexterm zone="tin">
+ <primary sortas="a-TIN">TIN</primary>
+ </indexterm>
+
+ <sect2 role="package">
+ <title>Introduction to TIN</title>
+
+ <para><application>TIN</application> is a threaded NNTP and spool based
+ console console-mode UseNet newsreader. It supports threading, scoring,
+ different charsets, and many other useful things. It has also support for
+ different languages.</para>
+
+ <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Package Information</bridgehead>
+ <itemizedlist spacing='compact'>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>Download (HTTP): <ulink url="&tin-download-http;"/></para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>Download (FTP): <ulink url="&tin-download-ftp;"/></para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>Download MD5 sum: &tin-md5sum;</para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>Download size: &tin-size;</para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>Estimated disk space required: &tin-buildsize;</para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>Estimated build time: &tin-time;</para>
+ </listitem>
+ </itemizedlist>
+
+ <bridgehead renderas="sect3">TIN Dependencies</bridgehead>
+
+ <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Optional</bridgehead>
+ <para role="optional"><xref linkend="pcre"/>,
+ <xref linkend="libidn"/>,
+ an <ulink url="../server/mail.html">MTA</ulink> that provides the
+ <command>sendmail</command> command,
+ <xref linkend="mailx"/>,
+ <xref linkend="gnupg"/>,
+ a spell checker (<xref linkend="ispell"/> or <xref linkend="aspell"/>),
+ a printing system (<xref linkend="cups"/> or <xref linkend="LPRng"/>),
+ <xref linkend="mutt"/> and <xref linkend="procmail"/>
+ for <command>metamutt</command>,
+ <ulink url="http://www.isc.org/index.pl?/sw/inn/";>INN</ulink>,
+ <ulink url="http://www.fpx.de/fp/Software/UUDeview/";>UUDeview</ulink>,
+ <ulink url="http://www.inet.no/dante/";>Socks</ulink>,
+ <ulink
+ url="ftp://ftp.research.telcordia.com/pub/nsb/mm2.7.tar.Z";>Metamail</ulink>,
+ and
+ <ulink url="http://dmalloc.com/";>Dmalloc</ulink>
+ or
+ <ulink url="ftp://invisible-island.net/dbmalloc/";>dbmalloc</ulink></para>
+
+ <para condition="html" role="usernotes">User Notes:
+ <ulink url="&blfs-wiki;/Tin"/></para>
+
+ </sect2>
+
+ <sect2 role="installation">
+ <title>Installation of TIN</title>
+
+ <para>Install <application>TIN</application> by running the following
+ commands:</para>
+
+<screen><userinput>./configure --prefix=/usr --with-screen=ncursesw \
+ --enable-nntp-only --disable-printing &&
+make build</userinput></screen>
+
+ <para>This package does not come with a test suite.</para>
+
+ <para>Now, as the <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> user:</para>
+
+<screen role='root'><userinput>make install</userinput></screen>
+
+ </sect2>
+
+ <sect2 role="commands">
+ <title>Command Explanations</title>
+
+ <para><parameter>--with-screen=ncursesw</parameter>: This switch forces
+ the use of wide-character functions from the ncursesw library (for UTF-8
+ and Asian languages support).</para>
+
+ <para><parameter>--enable-nntp-only</parameter>: Reading news from a local
+ spool is disabled with this switch. Don't use this is you have installed
+ INN and want to use its' spool.</para>
+
+ <para><parameter>--disable-printing</parameter>: This switch disables
+ printing since <application>TIN</application> cant send non-ASCII text to
+ the printer correctly. Remove this switch if you can tolerate this
+ limitation.</para>
+
+ </sect2>
+
+ <sect2 role="configuration">
+ <title>Configuring TIN</title>
+
+ <sect3 id="tin-config">
+ <title>Config Files</title>
+
+ <para><filename>/etc/tin/tinrc</filename>,
+ <filename>~/.tin/tinrc</filename> and
+ <filename>~/.newsrc</filename></para>
+
+ <indexterm zone="tin tin-config">
+ <primary sortas="e-etc-tinrc">/etc/tin/tinrc</primary>
+ </indexterm>
+
+ <indexterm zone="tin tin-config">
+ <primary sortas="e-AA.tinrc">~/.tin/tinrc</primary>
+ </indexterm>
+
+ <indexterm zone="tin tin-config">
+ <primary sortas="e-AA.newsrc">~/.newsrc</primary>
+ </indexterm>
+
+ </sect3>
+
+ <sect3>
+ <title>Configuration Information</title>
+
+ <para>Set some global defaults for <application>TIN</application> by
+ running the following commands as the
+ <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> user:</para>
+
+<screen role='root'><userinput>install -v -m755 -d /etc/tin &&
+cat > /etc/tin/tinrc << "EOF"
+use_mouse=ON
+getart_limit=100
+translit=ON
+EOF</userinput></screen>
+
+ <para>Now, as a normal user, subscribe to some newsgroups, specify the
+ news server, and run <command>tin</command>:</para>
+
+<screen><userinput>cat >> ~/.newsrc << "EOF"
+gmane.linux.lfs.devel:
+gmane.linux.lfs.beyond.devel:
+EOF
+export NNTPSERVER=news.gmane.org
+tin -Q</userinput></screen>
+
+ </sect3>
+
+ </sect2>
+
+ <sect2 role="content">
+ <title>Contents</title>
+
+ <segmentedlist>
+ <segtitle>Installed Programs</segtitle>
+ <segtitle>Installed Libraries</segtitle>
+ <segtitle>Installed Directories</segtitle>
+
+ <seglistitem>
+ <seg>tin, rtin, tinews.pl, metamutt, opt-case.pl, w2r.pl,
+ and url_handler.sh</seg>
+ <seg>None</seg>
+ <seg>/etc/tin</seg>
+ </seglistitem>
+ </segmentedlist>
+
+ <variablelist>
+ <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
+ <?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
+ <?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>
+
+ <varlistentry id="tin-prog">
+ <term><command>tin</command></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>is a UseNet news reader.</para>
+ <indexterm zone="tin tin-prog">
+ <primary sortas="b-tin">tin</primary>
+ </indexterm>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry id="rtin">
+ <term><command>rtin</command></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>is a symbolic link to <command>tin</command>.</para>
+ <indexterm zone="tin rtin">
+ <primary sortas="b-rtin">rtin</primary>
+ </indexterm>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry id="tinews.pl">
+ <term><command>tinews.pl</command></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>posts and signs an article via NNTP.</para>
+ <indexterm zone="tin tinews.pl">
+ <primary sortas="b-tinews.pl">tinews.pl</primary>
+ </indexterm>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry id="metamutt">
+ <term><command>metamutt</command></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>is a replacement of <command>metamail</command> using
+ <application>Mutt</application>.</para>
+ <indexterm zone="tin metamutt">
+ <primary sortas="b-metamutt">metamutt</primary>
+ </indexterm>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry id="opt-case.pl">
+ <term><command>opt-case.pl</command></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>optimizes case insensitive regexp filters for tin.</para>
+ <indexterm zone="tin opt-case.pl">
+ <primary sortas="b-opt-case.pl">opt-case.pl</primary>
+ </indexterm>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry id="w2r.pl">
+ <term><command>w2r.pl</command></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>converts tin wildmat filters to tin regexp filters.</para>
+ <indexterm zone="tin w2r.pl">
+ <primary sortas="b-w2r.pl">w2r.pl</primary>
+ </indexterm>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry id="url_handler.sh">
+ <term><command>url_handler.sh</command></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>calls a web browser for viewing hyperlinks.</para>
+ <indexterm zone="tin url_handler.sh">
+ <primary sortas="b-url_handler.sh">url_handler.sh</primary>
+ </indexterm>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ </variablelist>
+
+ </sect2>
+
+</sect1>
Index: basicnet/mailnews/mailnews.xml
===================================================================
--- basicnet/mailnews/mailnews.xml (revision 5893)
+++ basicnet/mailnews/mailnews.xml (working copy)
@@ -23,7 +23,10 @@
<xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2003/XInclude"; href="fetchmail.xml"/>
<xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2003/XInclude"; href="mutt.xml"/>
<xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2003/XInclude"; href="pine.xml"/>
+ <!-- Commenting out slrn as tin has replaced it
<xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2003/XInclude"; href="slrn.xml"/>
+ -->
+ <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2003/XInclude"; href="tin.xml"/>
<xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2003/XInclude"; href="other.xml"/>
</chapter>
Index: general.ent
===================================================================
--- general.ent (revision 5893)
+++ general.ent (working copy)
@@ -304,7 +304,10 @@
<!ENTITY fetchmail-version "6.2.5.2">
<!ENTITY mutt-version "1.5.11">
<!ENTITY pine-version "4.63">
+<!-- Commenting out slrn as tin has replaced it
<!ENTITY slrn-version "0.9.8.1">
+-->
+<!ENTITY tin-version "1.8.1">
<!-- Part VI -->
<!-- Chapter 21 -->
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