[Apt-zip-devel] Redundancy?

Giacomo A. Catenazzi cate at debian.org
Sat Sep 29 17:52:44 UTC 2007


Hello Wolfram,

Wolfram Sang wrote:
> Hiya,
> 
> I hope there is still someone reading this list :)
> 
> While working on wget-dos (first version nearly finished, excluding tar 
> and restart-options) I found two redundancies; but maybe they exist for 
> a reason?
> 
> - wget is called with "-O $2 $1". I think wget will create the correct 
> filename out of the URI $1, so "-O $2" could be skipped, no?

IIRC the -O it is used to overwrite the existing file (partial
download, errors...).  If you don't use -O, the file will have
a .1 suffix

> 
> - using the option "restart" without "tar", will just add a check if the 
> file was already downloaded to do_wget(). But this check is already in 
> getfile(). So, the addition could be skipped, no?

I should check, but I never used options, so I never cared a lot ;-)

ciao
	cate


> 
> All the best,
> 
>     Wolfram
> 
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