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From: lad@lad.sdl.UUCP (Lawrence Deleski)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: expire problem in bnews 2.11.18
Message-ID: <53@lad.sdl.UUCP>
Date: 15 Sep 89 20:11:20 GMT
Organization: Silicon Compiler Systems / Warren, NJ
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I'm having a problem doing a rebuild with the patchlevel 18 expire.  Using
expire -r -I -e 5 -v6, expire runs for quite some time before spouting out the
message:

Bogus local distribution rejected

Expire then dies.

The code from header.c where the error occurs is:

                case DISTRIBUTION:
                        getfield(hp->distribution, sizeof(hp->distribution));
                        if (STRCMP(hp->distribution, "net") == 0
                                || STRCMP(hp->distribution, "world") == 0)
                                hp->distribution[0] = '\0';
                        else if (STRCMP(hp->distribution, "local") == 0 &&
                                hp->path[0] != '\0' &&
#ifdef GENERICPATH
                                strncmp(hp->path, PATHSYSNAME,
                                         strlen(PATHSYSNAME)) != 0) {
#else /* !GENERICPATH */
                                strncmp(hp->path, LOCALPATHSYSNAME,
                                         strlen(LOCALPATHSYSNAME)) != 0) {
#endif /* !GENERICPATH */
                                        hp->distribution[0] = '\0';
                                        xerror("Bogus local distribution
rejected");


It seems that it looks in the /usr/lib/news/distributions file for the
standard distributions net, world, and local.  I edited mine to have just
those three.   Expire did the same thing.  

BTW, I can do the standard expire (no rebuild) but I cannot rebuild.   Any
ideas?


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