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  • which package brings nroff?

    From Johanne Fairchild@21:1/5 to All on Wed Sep 18 21:20:22 2024
    I've been installing packages only through /pkg/. I'd like to install
    qmail and it wants nroff (likely to produce manual pages). I searched
    for it with ``pkg search nroff''. No results. Any directions? Thanks!

    # freebsd-version -ukr
    13.2-RELEASE-p10
    13.2-RELEASE-p10
    13.2-RELEASE-p10

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  • From John Levine@21:1/5 to All on Thu Sep 19 02:01:35 2024
    According to Johanne Fairchild <jfairchild@tudado.org>:
    I've been installing packages only through /pkg/. I'd like to install
    qmail and it wants nroff (likely to produce manual pages). I searched
    for it with ``pkg search nroff''. No results. Any directions? Thanks!

    nroff is part of the groff package.

    FYI, qmail hasn't been maintained by its author since 1998. There are a bunch of heavily patched versions which work better or worse. I use it with a different
    set of patches and a the mailfront SMTP daemon rather than the rather creaky one
    that comes with the qmail package.



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  • From John D Groenveld@21:1/5 to jfairchild@tudado.org on Thu Sep 19 02:11:28 2024
    In article <87ed5gebp5.fsf@tudado.org>,
    Johanne Fairchild <jfairchild@tudado.org> wrote:
    I've been installing packages only through /pkg/. I'd like to install
    qmail and it wants nroff (likely to produce manual pages). I searched
    for it with ``pkg search nroff''. No results. Any directions? Thanks!

    <URL:https://man.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=nroff&apropos=0&sektion=0&manpath=FreeBSD+13.4-RELEASE+and+Ports&arch=default&format=html>

    $ pkg rquery '%o' groff

    <URL:https://cgit.freebsd.org/ports/tree/textproc/groff>

    John
    groenveld@acm.org

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  • From Ted Nolan @21:1/5 to jfairchild@tudado.org on Thu Sep 19 03:46:36 2024
    In article <87ed5gebp5.fsf@tudado.org>,
    Johanne Fairchild <jfairchild@tudado.org> wrote:
    I've been installing packages only through /pkg/. I'd like to install
    qmail and it wants nroff (likely to produce manual pages). I searched
    for it with ``pkg search nroff''. No results. Any directions? Thanks!

    # freebsd-version -ukr
    13.2-RELEASE-p10
    13.2-RELEASE-p10
    13.2-RELEASE-p10

    groff
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    What's not in Columbia anymore..

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  • From Johanne Fairchild@21:1/5 to John Levine on Thu Sep 19 09:01:40 2024
    John Levine <johnl@taugh.com> writes:

    [...]

    FYI, qmail hasn't been maintained by its author since 1998. There are
    a bunch of heavily patched versions which work better or worse. I use
    it with a different set of patches and a the mailfront SMTP daemon
    rather than the rather creaky one that comes with the qmail package.

    I could not even run anything. On the first local-delivery test, I get

    Sep 19 08:37:00 freebsd kernel: pid 40818 (qmail-rspawn), jid 0, uid 1014: exited on signal 11
    Sep 19 08:37:00 freebsd qmail[40816]: 1726745820.743691 alert: oh no! lost spawn connection! dying...
    Sep 19 08:37:00 freebsd kernel: pid 40817 (qmail-lspawn), jid 0, uid 0: exitedon signal 11 (core dumped)

    in /var/log/messages. I've never seen this before (with qmail). It
    could be my fault, but I have the feeling that the evolution of the
    system broke qmail. I'm going to look for a minimally patched version.
    Any recommendations? Thank you!

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  • From Johanne Fairchild@21:1/5 to John Levine on Thu Sep 19 08:16:14 2024
    John Levine <johnl@taugh.com> writes:

    According to Johanne Fairchild <jfairchild@tudado.org>:
    I've been installing packages only through /pkg/. I'd like to install >>qmail and it wants nroff (likely to produce manual pages). I searched
    for it with ``pkg search nroff''. No results. Any directions? Thanks!

    nroff is part of the groff package.

    Thanks! Installed groff and finished the qmail compilation recipes.

    (Thanks for the heads up! I'll keep it mind.)

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