[Bug-wget] savannah down, cant submit bug report

[P van Kemenade]

Hi

savannah.gnu.org is down from here, and I can't submit the
bug report below. if anyone is interested, please do it
for me; i'm off to find another solution.

> category: program logic
> operating system: gnu/linux release : 1.11.4
> reproducability: every time
> summary: the -k and -K options do not
>            prevent clobbering (contrary to whats in the man page)
>
> The man page at http://www.gnu.org/software/wget/manual/wget.html
> reads, about the -E (adjust extension) option
>
> "Note that filenames
> changed in this way will be re-downloaded every time you re-mirror a
> site, because Wget can't tell that the local X.html file corresponds
> to remote URL ‘X’ (...) To prevent this re-downloading, you must use
> ‘-k’ and ‘-K’ so that the original version of the file will be saved
> as X.orig (see Recursive Retrieval Options)."
>
> This is not true in wget 1.10 and wget 1.11, and I've been told on
> IRC this is probably not so in 1.12. In effect, you can not rewrite links on
> an archive already wgetted without wgetting it again (if file renaming
> was used). Someone on irc
> mentioned "perhaps the manual expresses an intention that was never
> manifested."
>
> When this command
>
> wget -d -r -k -K -E --restrict-file-names=windows
> --no-clobber  -l inf  -Q 1m -H  -D www.gnu.org http://www.gnu.org
>
> is run twice, all the html files that are to be renamed are retrieved
> again the second time (but not the page requisites). --no-clobber
> only has effects on page requisites and pages with extension html,
> not on html without the correct extension (probably because of the
> rewriting -E switch), and clobbering apparently ignores the .orig
> files
>

thanks,
*-pike

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