Re: [Bug-wget] timestamping and continue don't play nice with each other

[Caleb Cushing]

On Sun, Jul 11, 2010 at 9:51 AM, Giuseppe Scrivano <address@hidden> wrote:
> Does it work for you?

I thought it was working because sometimes I seemed to get the files
updated but the last couple of days no updates came in, so I turned
continue off and by timestamp check alone it downloaded new files. So
I guess it must not work all the time :( or something else is going
on.

to explain the situation a bit further I'm using wget to download the
packages/repo's for arch.

http://mirrors.kernel.org/archlinux/community/os/x86_64/community.db.tar.gz
(perhaps you can use this file to test)

At least one of the repo's.tar.gz is updated daily but not all of
them... so in order to not waste bandwidth on either side I'd like to
be able to check to make sure that the file is newer (e.g timestamped)
these files are small enough in theory I could get buy with
timestamping alone however the same wget command is used to fetch
packages, and with a throttled 150k downloading software like open
office without continue would be somewhat painful if it failed halfway
and couldn't resume.
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Caleb Cushing

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