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

[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 that we'd want to overwrite them, to get the fresher version.
> > > But the existing wget invocation does the same thing, so maybe it's
> > > intentional?
> >
> > clobbering is implicitly disabled with the -nd option:
> >
> >    -nd
> >         --no-directories
> >             Do not create a hierarchy of directories when retrieving
> >             recursively.  With this option turned on, all files will
> >             get saved to the current directory, without clobbering (if
> >             a name shows up more than once, the filenames will get
> >             extensions .n).
>
> Yes.  As I said, I'm a little surprised that the selected options appear
> to avoid clobbering files whose names conflict.

Interestingly, the build-aux/bootstrap script uses slightly different
wget(1) options [0]:

  po_download_command_format2=\
  "wget --mirror -nd -q -np -A.po -P '%s' \
   http://translationproject.org/latest/%s/";

[0]
http://git.sv.gnu.org/cgit/gnulib.git/tree/build-aux/bootstrap?id=157c42eff7#n129

Have a nice day,
Berny