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* which package brings nroff?Johanne Fairchild
+* Re: which package brings nroff?John Levine
|+- Re: which package brings nroff?Johanne Fairchild
|`- Re: which package brings nroff?Johanne Fairchild
+- Re: which package brings nroff?John D Groenveld
`- Re: which package brings nroff?ted@loft.tnolan.com (Ted Nolan

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Subject: which package brings nroff?
From: Johanne Fairchild
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Subject: which package brings nroff?
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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

Subject: Re: which package brings nroff?
From: John Levine
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Subject: Re: which package brings nroff?
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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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Subject: Re: which package brings nroff?
From: John D Groenveld
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From: groenveld@acm.org (John D Groenveld)
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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

Subject: Re: which package brings nroff?
From: ted@loft.tnolan.com
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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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Subject: Re: which package brings nroff?
From: Johanne Fairchild
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Subject: Re: which package brings nroff?
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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.)

Subject: Re: which package brings nroff?
From: Johanne Fairchild
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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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