Package: wget
Version: 1.8.2-5
Severity: normal
Hi,
Wget always downloads retrieved symlinks, even when the retrieved
file has already been successfully downloaded.
I invoked wget like this,
wget \
--cut-dirs=2 \
--glob=on \
--input-file=NetBSD-1.6-urlist \
--append-output=NetBSD-1.6-log \
--retr-symlinks \
--timestamping \
--force-directories \
--no-host-directories \
--non-verbose \
&
the files in question have this ftp directory listing,
lrwxrwxrwx 1 ftpuser ftpusers 27 Sep 12 03:35 man.tgz -> ../../../shared/ALL/man.tgz
lrwxrwxrwx 1 ftpuser ftpusers 28 Sep 12 03:35 misc.tgz -> ../../../shared/ALL/misc.tgz
I ran wget and these two files, {man,misc}.tgz, were downloaded
successfully, ie, the symlinks were followed, and the
linked-to-files were downloaded, in addition, during this run many
other regular, ie, not symlinked files, were also downloaded.
The first indication of a problem is that the downloaded symlinked
files were given the mtime of the symlink, rather than the mtime
of the linked-to-file,
-rw-r--r-- 1 jeff jeff 6640184 Sep 12 03:35 man.tgz
-rw-r--r-- 1 jeff jeff 2333002 Sep 12 03:35 misc.tgz
Then, I ran wget again, and here is where the problem occurred.
What happened is that the previously downloaded regular files were
not downloaded again, as expected, however, the two symlinked
files were downloaded again, in their entirety.
This is a tremendous waste of resources, and it negates the whole
purpose for using timestamping in the first place.
Thanks,
Dear Debian "wget" bug reporter, I just want to inform you why your bug report is still open or why it looks like that nobody is working on fixing the bugs reported against the wget package (http://bugs.debian.org/wget). Since some month I didn't report bugs and problems to the upstream author/mailinglist (http://www.gnu.org/software/wget/#mailinglists) because wget right now has no maintainer who is working on it or fixes bugs.:( http://www.gnu.org/help/help.html --8<-- We are looking for new maintainers for these GNU packages (contact <maintainers@gnu.org> if you'd like to volunteer): * ... * wget (which still has a maintainer, but he would like to step down) --8<-- This is the reason why reporting bugs to the wget mailinglist right now doesn't make sense because nobody will work on them. When there will be a new maintainer I will report the open bugs in the Debian Bug Tracking System (BTS) to him but this may take some time (the help request on the gnu.org page is there since a month; maybe you know somebody:)). Thanks for reporting bugs.:)
Dear Debian "wget" bug reporter, I just want to inform you why your bug report is still open or why it looks like that nobody is working on fixing the bugs reported against the wget package (http://bugs.debian.org/wget). Since some month I didn't report bugs and problems to the upstream author/mailinglist (http://www.gnu.org/software/wget/#mailinglists) because wget right now has no maintainer who is working on it or fixes bugs.:( http://www.gnu.org/help/help.html --8<-- We are looking for new maintainers for these GNU packages (contact <maintainers@gnu.org> if you'd like to volunteer): * ... * wget (which still has a maintainer, but he would like to step down) --8<-- This is the reason why reporting bugs to the wget mailinglist right now doesn't make sense because nobody will work on them. When there will be a new maintainer I will report the open bugs in the Debian Bug Tracking System (BTS) to him but this may take some time (the help request on the gnu.org page is there since a month; maybe you know somebody:)). Thanks for reporting bugs.:)
tags 162283 + moreinfo thanks Hello Jeff, I'm working on reproducing all the debian wget bugs and then report them upstream. Can you still reproduce your reported bug http://bugs.debian.org/162283 with wget 1.10.2 (in etch/stable and later? Because the input-file "NetBSD-1.6-urlist" is not in the report, I'm asking before trying out myself.:) thx.
tags 162283 + upstream forwarded 162283 https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/index.php?20522 thanks I have not attempted to reproduce this bug; however, if the behavior is still present in wget, I would wish to address it. Therefore, to make sure I don't forget about it, I've added it to our upstream bug tracker: https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/index.php?20522
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