From: Kei Kebreau <kei@openmailbox.org>
To: 26320-done@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#26320: Alpine News and Mail client
Date: Sat, 08 Apr 2017 13:47:53 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87tw5y3i5y.fsf@openmailbox.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170404143447.tf5kjam26qe5mpvt@abyayala> (ng0's message of "Tue, 4 Apr 2017 14:34:47 +0000")
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ng0 <contact.ng0@cryptolab.net> writes:
> Kei Kebreau transcribed 1.5K bytes:
>> ng0 <contact.ng0@cryptolab.net> writes:
>>
>> > Kei Kebreau transcribed 7.4K bytes:
>> >> ng0 <contact.ng0@cryptolab.net> writes:
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> Maybe this can be a bit more descriptive, but then again, the mutt mail
>> >> client has a fairly modest description as well.
>> >
>> > I don't know. It's a text bsaed email and news client. It features its
>> > own text editor (so it says) called pico. That's all I know. I don't
>> > know wether the editor can be used on its own or just in application.
>> >
>> >
>>
>> It can! Users can run "pico", GNU nano's predecessor, as a standalone
>> program with this package installed.
>
> quote README:
>
> In general "make install" should place alpine, pico and pilot, and
> their corresponding man pages, in the proper directory for your
> system. As the remaining binaries are intended for specific uses or
> are a component of a larger package, their installation is typically
> done by hand.
> endquote README
>
> Include are not:
>
> quote
> alpined
> The Web Alpine serveret that is the primary component of
> Web Alpine
>
> imapd The IMAP daemon. If you want to run alpine in client/server
> mode, this is the daemon to run on the server. Installing this
> requires system privileges and modifications to /etc/services.
> See doc/tech-notes for more details.
>
> mtest The test IMAP client, an absolutely minimal mail client, useful
> for debugging.
> mailutil
> Utility for performing various operations on mailboxes,
> be they local or remote.
> endquote
>
> But in addition to the above listed included applications, "rpload" and
> "rpdump" are included.
>
> This is taken from the section "RESULTING EXECUTABLE".
>
> Whoever wants to include more than the standard set of make install
> needs to be a alpine user, I can't judge what's necessary, important,
> too much, or whatever.
>
> I have addressed the datestamp issue, but I needed to fix this in
> #:phases, as a snippet did not accept what I ran, files weren't being
> found.
>
>>From c5298208448e0a46b6162801bbb17ae1d9e72a5c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: ng0 <contact.ng0@cryptolab.net>
> Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2017 03:20:38 +0000
> Subject: [PATCH] gnu: Add alpine.
>
> * gnu/packages/mail.scm (alpine): New variable.
> ---
> gnu/packages/mail.scm | 73 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
> 1 file changed, 71 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/gnu/packages/mail.scm b/gnu/packages/mail.scm
> index 65fa9df54..463ed2850 100644
> --- a/gnu/packages/mail.scm
> +++ b/gnu/packages/mail.scm
> @@ -15,7 +15,7 @@
> ;;; Copyright © 2016 Lukas Gradl <lgradl@openmailbox.org>
> ;;; Copyright © 2016 Alex Kost <alezost@gmail.com>
> ;;; Copyright © 2016 Troy Sankey <sankeytms@gmail.com>
> -;;; Copyright © 2016, 2017 <contact.ng0@cryptolab.net>
> +;;; Copyright © 2016, 2017 ng0 <contact.ng0@cryptolab.net>
> ;;; Copyright © 2016 Clément Lassieur <clement@lassieur.org>
> ;;; Copyright © 2016, 2017 Arun Isaac <arunisaac@systemreboot.net>
> ;;; Copyright © 2016 John Darrington <jmd@gnu.org>
> @@ -40,6 +40,7 @@
>
> (define-module (gnu packages mail)
> #:use-module (gnu packages)
> + #:use-module (gnu packages aspell)
> #:use-module (gnu packages autotools)
> #:use-module (gnu packages base)
> #:use-module (gnu packages backup)
> @@ -63,6 +64,7 @@
> #:use-module (gnu packages gtk)
> #:use-module (gnu packages guile)
> #:use-module (gnu packages flex)
> + #:use-module (gnu packages kerberos)
> #:use-module (gnu packages libcanberra)
> #:use-module (gnu packages libevent)
> #:use-module (gnu packages libidn)
> @@ -70,6 +72,7 @@
> #:use-module (gnu packages lua)
> #:use-module (gnu packages m4)
> #:use-module (gnu packages ncurses)
> + #:use-module (gnu packages openldap)
> #:use-module (gnu packages pcre)
> #:use-module (gnu packages perl)
> #:use-module (gnu packages python)
> @@ -85,6 +88,7 @@
> #:use-module (gnu packages ruby)
> #:use-module (gnu packages samba)
> #:use-module (gnu packages screen)
> + #:use-module (gnu packages tcl)
> #:use-module (gnu packages tls)
> #:use-module (gnu packages networking)
> #:use-module (gnu packages web)
> @@ -95,7 +99,7 @@
> #:select (gpl2 gpl2+ gpl3 gpl3+ lgpl2.1 lgpl2.1+ lgpl3+
> non-copyleft (expat . license:expat) bsd-3
> public-domain bsd-4 isc (openssl . license:openssl)
> - bsd-2 x11-style agpl3))
> + bsd-2 x11-style agpl3 asl2.0))
> #:use-module (guix packages)
> #:use-module (guix download)
> #:use-module (guix git-download)
> @@ -2148,3 +2152,68 @@ Options can be specified in environment variables, configuration files, and
> the command line allowing maximum configurability and ease of use for
> operators and scripters.")
> (license gpl2+)))
> +
> +(define-public alpine
> + (package
> + (name "alpine")
> + (version "2.21")
> + (source
> + (origin
> + (method url-fetch)
> + ;; There are two versions: the plain continuation of Alpine without extra
> + ;; patches and the version which adds extra fixes. Every distro uses
> + ;; the patched version, and so do we to not break expectations.
> + ;; http://patches.freeiz.com/alpine/readme/README.patches
> + (uri (string-append "http://patches.freeiz.com/alpine/patches/alpine-"
> + version "/alpine-" version ".tar.xz"))
> + (sha256
> + (base32
> + "1k9hcfjywfk3mpsl71hjza3nk6icgf1b6xxzgx10kdzg5yci5x5m"))))
> + (build-system gnu-build-system)
> + (arguments
> + `(#:make-flags (list "CC=gcc")
> + #:configure-flags (list (string-append "--with-ssl-include-dir="
> + (assoc-ref %build-inputs "openssl")
> + "/include/openssl")
> + (string-append "--with-ssl-dir="
> + (assoc-ref %build-inputs "openssl"))
> + (string-append "--with-ssl-certs-dir="
> + "/etc/ssl/certs/")
> + (string-append "--with-ssl-lib-dir="
> + (assoc-ref %build-inputs "openssl")
> + "/lib")
> + (string-append "--with-interactive-spellcheck="
> + (assoc-ref %build-inputs "aspell")
> + "/bin/aspell"))
> + #:phases
> + (modify-phases %standard-phases
> + (add-after 'unpack 'make-reproducible
> + (lambda _
> + ;; This removes time-dependent code to make alpine reproducible.
> + (substitute* "pico/blddate.c"
> + (("%02d-%s-%d") "1970-01-01"))
> + (substitute* (list "alpine/Makefile.in"
> + "web/src/alpined.d/Makefile.in")
> + (("`date`") "1970-01-01"))
> + #t)))))
> + (inputs
> + `(("ncurses" ,ncurses)
> + ("openssl" ,openssl)
> + ("gnutls" ,gnutls)
> + ("openldap" ,openldap)
> + ("cyrus-sasl" ,cyrus-sasl)
> + ("mit-krb5" ,mit-krb5)
> + ("aspell" ,aspell)
> + ("tcl" ,tcl)
> + ("linux-pam" ,linux-pam)))
> + (home-page "http://patches.freeiz.com/alpine/")
> + (synopsis "Alternatively Licensed Program for Internet News and Email")
> + (description
> + "Alpine is a text-based mail and news client. Alpine includes several
> +tools and applications:
> +@enumerate
> +@item alpine, the Alpine mailer
> +@item pico, the standalone text editor, GNU nano's predecessor
> +@item pilot, the standalone file system navigator
> +@end enumerate\n")
> + (license asl2.0)))
Package pushed to master.
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prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-04-08 17:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-03-31 10:49 bug#26320: Alpine News and Mail client ng0
2017-04-02 16:48 ` Kei Kebreau
2017-04-02 17:47 ` ng0
2017-04-02 19:17 ` Kei Kebreau
2017-04-04 14:34 ` ng0
2017-04-08 17:47 ` Kei Kebreau [this message]
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