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,
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