Package Details: hostsblock 0.999.8.1-1

Git Clone URL: https://aur.archlinux.org/hostsblock.git (read-only, click to copy)
Package Base: hostsblock
Description: An ad- and malware-blocking utility for POSIX systems
Upstream URL: https://github.com/gaenserich/hostsblock
Keywords: adblock
Licenses: GPL
Submitter: jav209
Maintainer: jav209
Last Packager: jav209
Votes: 53
Popularity: 0.007497
First Submitted: 2012-05-03 23:18 (UTC)
Last Updated: 2019-04-07 21:14 (UTC)

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Shebang commented on 2017-08-04 14:03 (UTC)

Hey jav209, my system doesn't have a hostsblock user on it. It's required to build the package though. If I add the user manually it appears to build fine. ==> Starting package()... install: invalid user ‘hostsblock’ ==> ERROR: A failure occurred in package(). Aborting...

jav209 commented on 2017-08-03 15:22 (UTC)

Version 0.999.6 (Alpha 6) (03.08.2017) *Fixed parsing function that falsely expected gzip *Fixed verbosity typo *Fixed issue with hostsblock-urlblock symlink not reading from $1 *Moved raw annotation file to cache space to improve performance and reduce non-transitory space requirements

setone commented on 2017-08-01 21:32 (UTC)

Excellent, working fine now.

jav209 commented on 2017-08-01 19:02 (UTC)

@setone: Fixed in Version 0.999.5-1!

setone commented on 2017-07-31 06:19 (UTC)

Issues with hostsblock-urlcheck and hostsblock -c Please see details at https://github.com/gaenserich/hostsblock/issues/71 Thanks!

glitsj16 commented on 2017-07-28 03:34 (UTC)

@ jav209: symlink is fine now, thanks.

jav209 commented on 2017-07-28 02:46 (UTC)

@glitsj16 Corrected! Give it another whirl.

glitsj16 commented on 2017-07-28 02:37 (UTC)

Hi, latest PKGBUILD installs a broken symlink for hostsblock-urlcheck. This is due to the way the symlink is handled in the package() function: ln -sf "$pkgdir"/usr/bin/hostsblock "$pkgdir"/usr/bin/hostsblock-urlcheck should be ln -sf /usr/bin/hostsblock "$pkgdir"/usr/bin/hostsblock-urlcheck Regards

jav209 commented on 2017-07-27 14:00 (UTC) (edited on 2017-07-27 14:01 (UTC) by jav209)

See https://github.com/gaenserich/hostsblock/commits/master for a complete list of updates. Version 0.999.4 (Alpha 4) (07.23.2017) *Performance improvements (parallel downloads, consolidated grep calls) *Enhanced Security (runs as unpriviledged user outside of /etc) *Moved all scripts/libraries into single script for simplicity. *Bug fixes! User intervention required! *Move (or better: modify the new default) hostsblock.conf and other config files to /var/lib/hostsblock (due to increased security practices). Make sure that these files are owned by user and group 'hostsblock' (sudo chmod -R hostsblock:hostsblock /var/lib/hostsblock) *hostsblock uses user and group 'hostsblock' now, so various sudo priviledges will be needed to use hostsblock-urlcheck (a symlink to hostsblock -c), to write to /etc/hosts, and/or to restart your dns caching daemon. Check out the hostsblock.conf config file for details.

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