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bug #33831: wget --backup-converted does not work

Submitted by:  Noël Köthe <nok>
Submitted on:  Sat 23 Jul 2011 10:05:49 AM UTC  
 
Category: Program LogicSeverity: 3 - Normal
Priority: 5 - NormalStatus: Fixed
Privacy: PublicAssigned to: Giuseppe Scrivano <gscrivano>
Originator Name: Open/Closed: Closed
Release: 1.12Operating System: GNU/Linux
Reproducibility: NoneFixed Release: None
Planned Release: NoneRegression: None
Work Required: NonePatch Included: No

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Sat 06 Aug 2011 10:00:07 AM UTC, comment #2:

it was a problem in the documentation that is fixed in the development version.

Giuseppe Scrivano <gscrivano>
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Fri 05 Aug 2011 10:33:08 PM UTC, comment #1:

I couldn't reproduce the problem, if I launch the command I get backup-ed files and having a bunch of .orig and .html files.

Can you please give more information? Why is not it following the documentation?

Giuseppe Scrivano <gscrivano>
Project AdministratorIn charge of this item.
Sat 23 Jul 2011 10:05:49 AM UTC, original submission:

Hello,

the wget parameter --backup-converted does not work properly. It should create
a backup copy of downloaded files when these files are altered by wget. An
example is the use of --adjust-extension which adds a .html extension to the
file name if it has type text/html and does not end with .htm or .html.

I tried the following command to download recursively a part of a website:

wget --backup-converted -nc -k --adjust-extension -A .gif,133579* -l 0 -nd -R null.gif -I /film/133579,/m/kleioc/0010/exec/bigpage -r http://dlib-pr.mpier.mpg.de/m/kleioc/0010/exec/bigpage/%22133579_00000001.gif%22

You may try it out, the resulting files will be renamed according to the
--adjust-extension parameter, but --backup-converted has no effect as no
backup copies of the original files will be created. This leads to the problem
described in manual section 2.7: wget re-downloads every file when mirroring.
The solution proposed in manual section 2.7 is the use of --backup-converted,
which, as has been shown, does not work.

http://bugs.debian.org/624675

Noël Köthe <nok>

 

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