./comms/minicom, MS-DOS Telix serial communication program workalike

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Branch: CURRENT, Version: 2.7.1, Package name: minicom-2.7.1, Maintainer: pkgsrc-users

Minicom is a serial communication program. It is a un*x clone of the
well-known MS-DOS Telix program. It has ANSI color, dialing directory,
dial-a-list, script language, file up/download support, screen capture,
scroll-back, etc.

The author is Miquel van Smoorenburg ([email protected] -or-
[email protected]). Note, minicom is covered by the GNU GPL.


Required to run:
[comms/gkermit] [comms/lrzsz]

Required to build:
[pkgtools/cwrappers]

Package options: nls

Master sites:

Filesize: 855.409 KB

Version history: (Expand)

CVS history: (Expand)


   2025-12-20 13:15:46 by Nia Alarie | Files touched by this commit (2) 
Log message:
minicom: Fix implicit declaration of alloca(3).
   2025-05-17 04:49:42 by David H. Gutteridge | Files touched by this commit (1) 
Log message:
minicom: existing MASTER_SITES entry no longer exists
   2025-05-17 04:12:14 by David H. Gutteridge | Files touched by this commit (1) | Package updated
Log message:
minicom: update current homepage
   2021-10-26 12:06:07 by Nia Alarie | Files touched by this commit (85) 
Log message:
comms: Replace RMD160 checksums with BLAKE2s checksums

All checksums have been double-checked against existing RMD160 and
SHA512 hashes
   2021-10-07 15:27:10 by Nia Alarie | Files touched by this commit (85) 
Log message:
comms: Remove SHA1 hashes for distfiles
   2018-07-04 15:40:45 by Jonathan Perkin | Files touched by this commit (423) 
Log message:
*: Move SUBST_STAGE from post-patch to pre-configure

Performing substitutions during post-patch breaks tools such as mkpatches,
making it very difficult to regenerate correct patches after making changes,
and often leading to substituted string replacements being committed.
   2017-05-07 10:08:44 by Thomas Klausner | Files touched by this commit (2) 
Log message:
Remove patch that has no effect.
   2017-04-18 15:30:57 by Thomas Klausner | Files touched by this commit (2) 
Log message:
Updated minicom to 2.7.1.

New for version 2.7.1:
 - CVE-2017-7467: Fix an out of bounds data access that
   can lead to remote code execution. This issue was found
   by Solar Designer of Openwall during a security audit of
   the Virtuozzo 7 product, which contains derived downstream
   code in its prl-vzvncserver component. The corresponding
   Virtuozzo 7 fix is: \ 
https://src.openvz.org/projects/OVZ/repos/prl-vzvncserver/commits/6d95404e75b98f36b1cc85ee23df99dcf06ca13f

   Openwall would like to thank the Virtuozzo company for
   funding the effort.