Christoph Biedl wrote... > James Vega wrote... > > > On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 08:03:40AM +0000, Aníbal Monsalve Salazar wrote: > > > Please preserve timestamps in the dget script. I'm using the patch > > > below to pass the -N option to wget. I don't know the corresponding > > > option for curl. > > > > What use is this in the context of dget? > > Call it compability with apt-get source which does preserve the > timestamps. > > Or just eye-candy. > > Or, although rather personal: An .orig.tar.gz with a timestamp of more > or less "now" is an alarm sign to me: In the past I saw that only if > that tar ball was re-generated, something that was very likely not > intended. > > > Also, your patch doesn't change the current behavior at all > > since wget ignores -N when -O is being used (which dget does). > > Indeed, dget using wget always worked as expected here, read: > timestamps were preserved. Aníbal, I suspect you have an .wgetrc > interfering, causing you to suggest "-N". > > The trouble for me started when curl was installed and preferred by > dget, since the "-R" (long form is better: "--remote-time") option is > needed for curl. I'm not including the trivial patch, however it works > for me.
Seems this was resolved in 2.23.0 after the request came up again in
#1020914
Christoph
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