wget is not built with metalink support
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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wget (Debian) |
New
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Unknown
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wget (Ubuntu) |
Confirmed
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
The man page describes a "--metalink-
Issues HTTP HEAD request instead of GET and extracts Metalink metadata from response headers. Then it switches to Metalink download.
If no valid Metalink metadata is found, it falls back to ordinary HTTP download. Enables Content-Type: application/
files download/
However, attempting to use the "--metalink-
$ wget --metalink-
wget: unrecognized option '--metalink-
Usage: wget [OPTION]... [URL]...
Try `wget --help' for more options.
(I assume the error occurs because the Ubuntu version of wget is built without passing the `--with-metalink` flag to `configure`.)
Since the man page should correctly describe the options wget can take, the `--metalink-
(The same might apply to the man page discussion of `--metalink-index`, `--input-metalink`, `--keep-badhash`, `--preferred-
tags: | added: mantic |
Changed in wget (Debian): | |
status: | Unknown → New |
Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.