Re: [PATCH] gnulib-tool: Fallback to wget when rsync fails

2014-09-02 Thread Bernhard Voelker
On 09/02/2014 05:17 PM, Ben Pfaff wrote: On Tue, Sep 02, 2014 at 05:15:16PM +0200, Bernhard Voelker wrote: On 09/02/2014 05:06 PM, Ben Pfaff wrote: Looking at wget(1), I'm a little surprised that the selected options appear to avoid clobbering files whose names conflict. I would have expected

Re: [PATCH] gnulib-tool: Fallback to wget when rsync fails

2014-09-02 Thread Bernhard Voelker
On 09/02/2014 05:06 PM, Ben Pfaff wrote: Looking at wget(1), I'm a little surprised that the selected options appear to avoid clobbering files whose names conflict. I would have expected that we'd want to overwrite them, to get the fresher version. But the existing wget invocation does the same

Re: [PATCH] gnulib-tool: Fallback to wget when rsync fails

2014-09-02 Thread Ben Pfaff
On Tue, Sep 02, 2014 at 05:15:16PM +0200, Bernhard Voelker wrote: > On 09/02/2014 05:06 PM, Ben Pfaff wrote: > >Looking at wget(1), I'm a little surprised that the selected options > >appear to avoid clobbering files whose names conflict. I would have > >expected that we'd want to overwrite them,

Re: [PATCH] gnulib-tool: Fallback to wget when rsync fails

2014-09-02 Thread Ben Pfaff
On Tue, Sep 02, 2014 at 12:22:54PM +0200, Mathieu Anquetin wrote: > Current implementation only tries to rsync PO files when rsync is > installed on the host. In case of error, no files are downloaded even > if they are available. This leads to bootstrap problems for hosts > that lie behind a restr