nnrpd: adding blacklistd support

Andreas Kempe kempe at lysator.liu.se
Mon Mar 28 20:52:12 UTC 2022


On Mon, Mar 28, 2022 at 04:21:31PM +0000, Julien ÉLIE wrote:
> Hi Andreas,
> 
> > Adding it as --with-blacklistd sounds like the right thing to do, yes. 
> >
> >> I'll have a look.  As I do not run FreeBSD myself, it would 
> >> be great if you could somehow test it.
> > 
> > When you say that you will have a look, does that mean that you want
> > to rework the patch yourself?
> >
> > I'm willing (and was expecting) to open a pull request on GitHub and
> > do testing as well as any required rewriting per your review.
> 
> Oh, that's kind of you.  It will save me time to do other work for INN
> for the next major release.
> Of course I don't mind your working on a pull request.
> As we did not have GitHub until last year, I was accustomed to
> reworking myself patches sent to our mailing-lists.
> 

Happy to help! When I want a feature, I'm not adverse to putting in
some work to get it.

> The idea would be to create a new m4/blacklistd.m4 file (based for
> instance on m4/canlock.m4), add related glue in configure.ac and
> Makefile.global.in, and surround the new code in nnrpd with
> #if defined(HAVE_BLACKLISTD) instructions.
> 
> There is an entry in MANIFEST to add too.
> 
> Maybe a note about blacklistd in doc/pod/nnrpd.pod? (or any other
> file you think more appropriate)
> And mention --with-blacklistd in doc/pod/install.pod.
> 
> As GitHub continuous integration is run on Ubuntu, it cannot be
> tested (so there is nothing to change in the ci directory I think).
> 
> 

Your suggestions sound good. I'll open a pull request on Github for
review when I have made the changes.

> Many thanks to you.  It is greatly appreciated!
> 
> -- 
> Julien ÉLIE

Cordially,
Andreas Kempe


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