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Here is the preview patch for the www/nanoblogger port.

You can apply and install it using the following steps:

# cd /usr/ports/www/nanoblogger && make deinstall
# cd /usr/ports && patch < /tmp/nanoblogger.3.3-rc5.patch
# cd /usr/ports/www/nanoblogger && make install clean clean-depends

Be aware that there are a lot of changes in NanoBlogger itself, so read carefully the NanoBlogger User Manual online documentation and the pkg-message post installation output. After the installation, you can (re)read it using:

# pkg_info -D /var/db/pkg/nanoblogger

Download: nanoblogger.3.3-rc5.patch

Because i will be far from a computer for more than a week (as of today!), i post the preview patch for the www/nanoblogger port.

You can apply and install it using the following steps:

# cd /usr/ports/www/nanoblogger && make deinstall
# cd /usr/ports && patch < /tmp/nanoblogger.patch
# cd /usr/ports/www/nanoblogger && make install clean clean-depends

Be aware that there are a lot of changes in NanoBlogger itself, so read carefully the NanoBlogger User Manual online documentation and the pkg-message post installation output. After the installation, you can (re)read it using:

# pkg_info -D /var/db/pkg/nanoblogger

Download: nanoblogger.patch

Discussing how to add a copyright notice at each page automatically on the NanoBlogger mailing list, here are the two propositions i can think of.

It can be done by adding directly the copyright notice in the desired template files (i.e. templates/main_index.htm, etc.):

1. Either writing it in the corresponding files...

   $ diff -u templates/main_index.htm templates/main_index.htm.hardwritten
   --- templates/main_index.htm Wed Jul 6 14:49:05 2005
   +++ templates/main_index.htm.hardwritten Mon Aug 8 13:12:05 2005
   @@ -29,6 +29,10 @@
   $NB_Entries
   </div>
   
   +<div class="side">
   +All content herein © 2006, Your Company, Inc. All right reserved.
   +</div>
   +
   <div id="menu">
   $NB_PageLinks
   </div>
   

2. Or writing a little plugin to do that... (based on the plugins/fortune.sh code)

   # cat << EOF > ${NB_INST_PATH}/plugins/copyright.sh
   # NanoBlogger Copyright plugin.
   
   # sample code for templates, based off default stylesheet
   #
   # <div class="side">
   # $NB_Copyright
   # </div>
   
   PLUGIN_OUTFILE="$BLOG_DIR/$PARTS_DIR/copyright.$NB_FILETYPE"
   
   nb_msg "generating copyright ..."
   echo '<div class="copyright">' > "$PLUGIN_OUTFILE"
   echo 'All content herein © 2006, Your Company, Inc. All right reserved.' >> "$PLUGIN_OUTFILE"
   echo '</div>' >> "$PLUGIN_OUTFILE"
   NB_Copyright=$(< "$PLUGIN_OUTFILE")
   EOF
   $
   $ diff -u templates/main_index.htm templates/main_index.htm.plugin
   --- templates/main_index.htm Wed Jul 6 14:49:05 2005
   +++ templates/main_index.htm.plugin Mon Aug 8 13:12:29 2005
   @@ -29,6 +29,10 @@
   $NB_Entries
   </div>
   
   +<div class="side">
   +$NB_Copyright
   +</div>
   +
   <div id="menu">
   $NB_PageLinks
   </div>
   

The advantage of the second proposition is the capability to add a general feature using the NanoBlogger framework, and the use of the CSS to modify the new copyright class.

After deciding to use the NanoBlogger tool to maintain my little space on the web, i had updated the corresponding ports(7) on FreeBSD, currently orphaned at the time of this writing.

The all in one patch produced was committed by Pav Lucistnik, many thanks to him.

As a side note, it may be pointed out that this port include a local FreeBSD port's patch in order to bypass a little bug when creating a new weblog in release greater than 3.2.1 (and so present in 3.2.3). See bug report 1232755 for more information about this issue.