-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Raphael Geissert wrote: > Package: wget > Version: 1.11.1-1 > Severity: important > > A few days ago I updated to the latest version of the package and it silently > broke some data updating scripts. > > wget is executed like this: >> wget -N -O foo.db.new http://source.tld/foo.db > > And since the latest version it throws the next message: >> Cannot specify -r, -p or -N if -O is given. >> Usage: wget [OPTION]... [URL]... > But it is only sent to stdout, which prevented me from noticing the failure > via the cronjob emails. > > It worked just fine in 1.11-1 and previous,
No, the change was introduced in 1.11. You probably mean 1.10.2. But, in fact, it never "worked", it was just silently _allowed_. Timestamping was never supported for -O. > and I see this new 'behaviour' > broken. There should be no reason why -O and -N can't both be used at the > same time. Because -O doesn't mean "use this filename", it means "redirect output to this file", rather like the shell does (see the manpage). This means the local timestamp will _always_ be "now", regardless of the last time you'd previously run Wget (and the local file will also already be empty: it's a redirection). So timestamping is utterly useless. However, a case could be made that it's better to issue a warning that the combination is nonsensical, rather than exit (on the other hand, the error is a much better way to make it clear that -N and -O do not do what the user expected it to). Also, the message should clearly go to stderr, not to stdout. - -- Micah J. Cowan Programmer, musician, typesetting enthusiast, gamer, and GNU Wget Project Maintainer. http://micah.cowan.name/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFH/qRm7M8hyUobTrERAm7YAJ4vi3Tin4hE9eZUSvFXdro3WxBkMgCfYUK/ vEqUFi1uCajVX4zD8UXDYBU= =PlDO -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
