INN 2.5, inn-CURRENT-20090103 Issues

[William Kronert]

Hi Julian,

At 06:37 AM 1/17/2009, Julien ÉLIE wrote:
>>In the case of fr.* it is completely is broken.
>>When I feed fr.* in manually into docheckgroups I get:
>>grep: Unmatched ) or \)
>>grep: Unmatched ) or \)
>>grep: Unmatched ) or \)
>>grep: Unmatched ) or \)
>>grep: Unmatched ) or \)
>>grep: Unmatched ) or \)
>
>Exactly six times?

Yep, six times exactly.

>Then I believe $PATS is bad in docheckgroups.
>
>15:23 news at trigofacile ~% grep -E "a(" test
>grep: Échec du pairage de ( ou de \(
>
>
>In <pathbin>/docheckgroups, you have:
>
>PATS=`${SED} <${T}/$$msg \
>        -e 's/[         ].*//' -e 's/\..*//' \
>        -e 's/^!//' -e '/^$/d' \
>        -e 's/^/^/' -e 's/$/[.  ]/' \
>    | ${SORT} -u \
>    | (tr '\012' '|' ; echo '' )\
>    | ${SED} -e 's/|$//'`
>
>Please add just after:
>
>echo "$PATS"
>cat ${T}/$$msg
>
>and tell us the result of « echo "$PATS" » and if you notice something
>wrong in cat.  (You can paste it here if you want.)
>
>
>We will see after for fido7.*.

I am not sure if I did this right or the way you meant but....

I first decided to go to ftp.isc.org and get a 
new newsgroup description since it has been 
awhile since that has been updated on our site 
and I didn't want to throw in any more variables.

In docheckgroups:

PATS=`${SED} <${T}/$$msg \
        -e 's/[         ].*//' -e 's/\..*//' \
        -e 's/^!//' -e '/^$/d' \
        -e 's/^/^/' -e 's/$/[.  ]/' \
    | ${SORT} -u \
    | (tr '\012' '|' ; echo '' )\
    | ${SED} -e 's/|$//'`

  [I added the below, right after the above as you suggested]

echo "$PATS"
cat ${T}/$$msg

----------------------------------------------
I then tested the fr.* and fido7.* using your:
    wget 
http://usenet.trigofacile.com/hierarchies/index.py?see=FIDO7&only=checkgroups 
-O fido7
    wget 
http://usenet.trigofacile.com/hierarchies/index.py?see=FR&only=checkgroups 
-O fr

I also tested the checkgroups I already had from the control messages.

So I ran each using:
cat fido7 | docheckgroups
cat fr | docheckgroups

I intentionally had two groups wrong in our 
active file for fido7.* just to see what the 
docheckgroups would do.  The results are below for
fido7.* and for fr.*.  They were exactly the same 
in regards to "newsgroups descriptions are obsolete":

Basically the docheckgroups work with your 
checkgroups from wget. But using the actual 
control messages I had instead of yours I got 
strange output i.e those 6 "grep: Unmatched ) or 
\)" or adding strange fido7.* newsgroups names.

Here is the results using your wget fido and fr 
checkgroups with the echo "$PATS, etc added in
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

      [all newsgroups and descriptions were 
listed for fido7.*, i.e the last couple of lines are below....]

fido7.zx.spectrum       Fidonet ZX.SPECTRUM - ZX Spectrum computers (Moderated)
fido7.zxc.club          Fidonet ZXC.CLUB (Moderated)

      [then after the above list I  got this, 
this should be right as it should be removed:]
# You can remove them by executing the command(s):
         /etc/news/bin/ctlinnd rmgroup fido7.central.asia.talk

      [then I get this. This is right also as it should be added:]
# You can add them by executing the command(s):
         /etc/news/bin/ctlinnd newgroup fido7.r46.warez.new m

      [then...]
# The following newsgroups descriptions are obsolete:
#       fido7.angarsk.general   Fidonet 
ANGARSK.GENERAL - ÷Ó£ Ï áÎÇÁÒÓËÅ (Moderated)

[...for every single newsgroup the descriptions are obsolete]

[then...]
# The following newsgroups descriptions are missing and should be added:
#       fido7.angarsk.general   Fidonet 
ANGARSK.GENERAL - чУЈ ПВ бОЗБТУЛЕ (Moderated)

[...for every single newsgroup it gives a new description]

-----------------
Doing the same for fr.* I got the same 
results.  No change in newsgroups since they were 
right but every newsgroup description was wrong 
and I was given a replacement description:

# The following newsgroups descriptions are obsolete:
#       fr.bienvenue.questions  Les premières 
questions sur Usenet. (Où ? Comment ?)
#       fr.bio.medecine Discussions sur la médecine.
    [for every newsgroup description]

# The following newsgroups descriptions are missing and should be added:
#       fr.bienvenue.questions  Les premières 
questions sur Usenet. (Où ? Comment ?)
#       fr.bio.medecine Discussions sur la médecine.


I get the impression that the actual newsgroups 
are being check fine and returned fine but the 
newsgroup descriptions are somewhat of a problem.