--------------------------------------------------------------------- Fedora Test Update Notification FEDORA-2004-351 2004-10-27 --------------------------------------------------------------------- Product : Fedora Core 2 Name : wget Version : 1.9.1 Release : 16.fc2 Summary : A utility for retrieving files using the HTTP or FTP protocols. Description : GNU Wget is a file retrieval utility which can use either the HTTP or FTP protocols. Wget features include the ability to work in the background while you are logged out, recursive retrieval of directories, file name wildcard matching, remote file timestamp storage and comparison, use of Rest with FTP servers and Range with HTTP servers to retrieve files over slow or unstable connections, support for Proxy servers, and configurability. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Update Information: This new release of wget adds support for large files >2Gb Please test if the following works (make sure that your web/ftp server supports large files): - downloads of files smaller / larger than 2Gb via http and ftp - continue aborted downloads smaller / larger 2Gb via http and ftp Add your feedback to http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=123524 If I hear of no larger problems until Thu Nov 04, this package will be released as an update for Fedora Core 2. Thanks Karsten --------------------------------------------------------------------- * Fri Oct 22 2004 Karsten Hopp <karsten@xxxxxxxxx> 1.9.1-16.fc2 - build large file version for FC2 * Wed Sep 29 2004 Karsten Hopp <karsten@xxxxxxxxx> 1.9.1-17 - additional LFS patch from Leonid Petrov to fix file lengths in http downloads * Thu Sep 16 2004 Karsten Hopp <karsten@xxxxxxxxx> 1.9.1-16 - more fixes * Tue Sep 14 2004 Karsten Hopp <karsten@xxxxxxxxx> 1.9.1-15 - added strtol fix from Leonid Petrov, reenable LFS * Tue Sep 14 2004 Karsten Hopp <karsten@xxxxxxxxx> 1.9.1-14 - buildrequires gettext (#132519) * Wed Sep 01 2004 Karsten Hopp <karsten@xxxxxxxxx> 1.9.1-13 - disable LFS patch for now, it breaks normal downloads (123524#c15) --------------------------------------------------------------------- This update can be downloaded from: http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/testing/2/ 0f36e50c0c40ffdd5508d3862c54ba6f SRPMS/wget-1.9.1-16.fc2.src.rpm 96be1e722ca313667b54b5fd1e04f824 x86_64/wget-1.9.1-16.fc2.x86_64.rpm 678ab943f66b4991ccd9c6d6c101652d x86_64/debug/wget-debuginfo-1.9.1-16.fc2.x86_64.rpm 945a00f2a922adaf2ff0f035972793a7 i386/wget-1.9.1-16.fc2.i386.rpm fc1841ba974b739454e16031cc927111 i386/debug/wget-debuginfo-1.9.1-16.fc2.i386.rpm This update can also be installed with the Update Agent; you can launch the Update Agent with the 'up2date' command. You may need to edit your up2date channels configuration. Within /etc/sysconfig/rhn/sources enable the following line: yum updates-testing http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/testing/2/$ARCH --------------------------------------------------------------------- -- Karsten Hopp <karsten@xxxxxxxxx> GPG 1024D/70ABD02C Fingerprint D2D4 3B6B 2DE4 464C A432 210A DFF8 A140 70AB D02C Red Hat Deutschland, Hauptstaetter Str.58 70178 Stuttgart, Tel.+49-711-96437-0, Fax +49-711-96437-111
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