Package: leafnode
Version: 1.11.3.rel-2
Severity: normal

I have access to two newsservers
        news.server1.com
        news.server2.com
The first allows downloading of group descriptions, but the second does
not.  So I have a
        NODESC = 1
line on the second server.  However, there is one group in particular,
        alt.special-group
that is only available on server2.

I have been unable to find a way to read this group via leafnode, even
though I have access to a server that offers it.  For example, I tried
        only_groups_pcre = alt\\.special-group
So far, it seems that, unless the group appears in the
        groupinfo
file, then a placeholder directory will not be created, and it will be
impossible to subscribe to (and download) that group.  But the catch is that
groups on "NODESC = 1" servers don't get added to the groupinfo file.

Unless I've missed something, it seems that there ought to be a way to
manually specify in the configuration file that a specific group is indeed
available from a specific server, and it ought to be fetched from there.

        -- Don

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.8-2-686-smp
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1)

Versions of packages leafnode depends on:
ii  debconf                     1.4.51       Debian configuration management sy
ii  libc6                       2.3.2.ds1-22 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libpcre3                    5.0-1.1      Perl 5 Compatible Regular Expressi
ii  logrotate                   3.7-5        Log rotation utility
ii  netbase                     4.21         Basic TCP/IP networking system
ii  tcpd                        7.6.dbs-8    Wietse Venema's TCP wrapper utilit

-- debconf information:
* leafnode/update-groups: false
* leafnode/network: permanent
  leafnode/update-groupinfo:
  leafnode/tcpd: true
  leafnode/expireinfo:
  leafnode/purge: false
* leafnode/server: [news.somewhere.com]
  leafnode/update-maxcount:
  leafnode/ppp:


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