On Wed, 10 Oct 2001, Florian Simnacher wrote:
> is it possible to make wget retrieve only the latest version of a given
> *.tar.gz source package?
>
> For example in ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/wget there might be
> wget-1.5.tar.gz, wget-1.6.tar.gz, wget-1.7.tar.gz. I would like to "say"
> to wget: retrieve wget-someversion.tar.gz and wget fetches only the
> latest version (in this example: wget-1.7.tar.gz). And when
> wget-1.8.tar.gz is out it will retrieve only this one.
This can't possibly be made "built-in".
Instead I suggest you do this: Retrieve the directory first, have a script
parse it and check for the most recent version present. Check if the most
recent one in the remote directory is more recent than the one you have
locally and if it is, get it.
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Daniel Stenberg - http://daniel.haxx.se - +46-705-44 31 77
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