severity 419708 wishlist retitle 419708 wget: wish -N would not look at the size of files thanks
* Paolo [Tue, 17 Apr 2007 16:43:34 +0200]: > hi, Hi Paolo, I'm not the maintainer of wget, but had a look at your bugreport nevertheless, since it's of RC severity. > according to manual, -N should stand for 'check time-stamp', which means > (w)get and replace if newer than local copy. > It turns out instead that wget checks just the size, regardless of timestamp: As it happens, the behavior you describe is properly described in the documentation for wget: 5 Time-Stamping *************** [...] If the local file does not exist, or the sizes of the files do not match, Wget will download the remote file no matter what the time-stamps say. > Bug leads to overwriting of local newer files; that's "data loss", hence the > 'grave' tag. The thing is that -N is intended for mirroring purposes, so checking for the size is reasonable. For this, I'm lowering the severity of this bug. Cheers, -- Adeodato Simó dato at net.com.org.es Debian Developer adeodato at debian.org Listening to: Ellos - Imposible -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]