Hi, I am forwarding to you Debian bug 88176. (http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=88176&repeatmerged=yes)
I can reproduce the problem with 1.8.1 ---- The following transcript shows that the wget can do the Bad Thing with -O when timestamping. It can result on a 0 byte long result which reported as hit or in a redownload which isn't needed, so it is a bandwidth waste. gegehost:/alma# ls -l total 0 gegehost:/alma# wget http://ftp.hu.debian.org/ftp/debian/pool/main/b/bombardier/bombardier_0.6-1.dsc --23:08:25-- http://ftp.hu.debian.org/ftp/debian/pool/main/b/bombardier/bombardier_0.6-1.dsc => `bombardier_0.6-1.dsc' Connecting to ftp.hu.debian.org:80... connected! HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK Length: 549 [text/plain] 0K -> [100%] 23:08:25 (8.65 KB/s) - `bombardier_0.6-1.dsc' saved [549/549] gegehost:/alma# wget -N http://ftp.hu.debian.org/ftp/debian/pool/main/b/bombardier/bombardier_0.6-1.dsc --23:08:32-- http://ftp.hu.debian.org/ftp/debian/pool/main/b/bombardier/bombardier_0.6-1.dsc => `bombardier_0.6-1.dsc' Connecting to ftp.hu.debian.org:80... connected! HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK Length: 549 [text/plain] Server file no newer than local file `bombardier_0.6-1.dsc' -- not retrieving. gegehost:/alma# wget -O foo -N http://ftp.hu.debian.org/ftp/debian/pool/main/b/bombardier/bombardier_0.6-1.dsc --23:09:12-- http://ftp.hu.debian.org/ftp/debian/pool/main/b/bombardier/bombardier_0.6-1.dsc => `foo' Connecting to ftp.hu.debian.org:80... connected! HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK Length: 549 [text/plain] Server file no newer than local file `bombardier_0.6-1.dsc' -- not retrieving. gegehost:/alma# ls -l total 4 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 549 Dec 14 19:40 bombardier_0.6-1.dsc -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Mar 1 23:09 foo gegehost:/alma# rm * gegehost:/alma# wget -O foo http://ftp.hu.debian.org/ftp/debian/pool/main/b/bombardier/bombardier_0.6-1.dsc --23:09:32-- http://ftp.hu.debian.org/ftp/debian/pool/main/b/bombardier/bombardier_0.6-1.dsc => `foo' Connecting to ftp.hu.debian.org:80... connected! HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK Length: 549 [text/plain] 0K -> [100%] 23:09:33 (536.13 KB/s) - `foo' saved [549/549] gegehost:/alma# wget -O foo -N http://ftp.hu.debian.org/ftp/debian/pool/main/b/bombardier/bombardier_0.6-1.dsc --23:09:38-- http://ftp.hu.debian.org/ftp/debian/pool/main/b/bombardier/bombardier_0.6-1.dsc => `foo' Connecting to ftp.hu.debian.org:80... connected! HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK Length: 549 [text/plain] 0K -> [100%] 23:09:39 (59.57 KB/s) - `foo' saved [549/549] ---- Please keep [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC'ed. Any comments welcome. -- Guillaume Morin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Marianne rebelle me disait qu'elle est plus jolie métissée (Noir Désir)
