lwall@sdcrdcf.UUCP (Larry Wall) (08/04/86)
System: rn version 4.3
Patch #: 28
Priority: MEDIUM
Subject: Won't add new newsgroups that don't have a spool directory yet.
From: dsp@ptsfa.UUCP (Dave St. Pierre)
Description:
rn and inews seem to be in conflict as to what should be in a
well-formed newgroup. inews updates the active file but doesn't
run the mkdir until the first article arrives. rn announces
"No mod.mac.binaries!"
and for all intents and purposes ignores that newsgroup until you
later "manually" add it to your .newsrc (like with the 'g' command).
This has been a tolerable situation in the past but with 150 or so
newgroups about to flood the net, and not all of them having an article
tagged with it, we're going to have a few unhappy rn readers.
Rick feels that it's rn's problem. Larry may or may not disagree.
The fix was rather trivial to inews (call mknewsg in c_newgroup)
and may be equally easy in rn. Can one of the two come up with an
"official" fix?
Fix: This oughta do it. In this case, it deletes a call.
From rn, say "| patch -d DIR", where DIR is your rn source directory.
Outside of rn, say "cd DIR; patch <thisarticle". If you don't have
the patch program, apply the following by hand, or get patch.
If patch indicates that patchlevel is the wrong version, you may need
to apply one or more previous patches, or the patch may already
have been applied. See the patchlevel file to find out what has or
has not been applied. In any event, don't continue with the patch.
Index: patchlevel
Prereq: 27
1c1
< Patch #: 27
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> Patch #: 28
Index: rcstuff.c
Prereq: 4.3.1.4
*** rcstuff.c.old Thu Jul 24 14:10:38 1986
--- rcstuff.c Thu Jul 24 14:10:46 1986
***************
*** 1,4
! /* $Header: rcstuff.c,v 4.3.1.4 85/09/10 11:04:44 lwall Exp $
*
* $Log: rcstuff.c,v $
* Revision 4.3.1.4 85/09/10 11:04:44 lwall
--- 1,4 -----
! /* $Header: rcstuff.c,v 4.3.1.5 86/07/24 14:09:10 lwall Exp $
*
* $Log: rcstuff.c,v $
* Revision 4.3.1.5 86/07/24 14:09:10 lwall
***************
*** 1,6
/* $Header: rcstuff.c,v 4.3.1.4 85/09/10 11:04:44 lwall Exp $
*
* $Log: rcstuff.c,v $
* Revision 4.3.1.4 85/09/10 11:04:44 lwall
* Improved %m in in_char().
*
--- 1,9 -----
/* $Header: rcstuff.c,v 4.3.1.5 86/07/24 14:09:10 lwall Exp $
*
* $Log: rcstuff.c,v $
+ * Revision 4.3.1.5 86/07/24 14:09:10 lwall
+ * Removed check for spool directory existence in get_ng.
+ *
* Revision 4.3.1.4 85/09/10 11:04:44 lwall
* Improved %m in in_char().
*
***************
*** 245,252
set_ngname(what);
ng = find_ng(ngname);
if (ng == nextrcline) { /* not in .newsrc? */
! if (eaccess(ngdir,0) ||
! (softptr[ng] = findact(buf,ngname,strlen(ngname),0L)) < 0 ) {
dingaling();
#ifdef VERBOSE
IF(verbose)
--- 248,254 -----
set_ngname(what);
ng = find_ng(ngname);
if (ng == nextrcline) { /* not in .newsrc? */
! if ((softptr[ng] = findact(buf,ngname,strlen(ngname),0L)) < 0 ) {
dingaling();
#ifdef VERBOSE
IF(verbose)