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Fedora Core 2 FEDORA-2004-351 Moderate: Wget Large File Support Update

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Calendar Grey November 4, 2004
Dist Fedora Esm H88
This enhancement to curl improves file transfer capabilities, allowing seamless uploads for files exceeding 5Gb, ensuring efficient data distribution on Ubuntu Server 20.
This new release of wget adds support for large files >2Gb, p.e

Summary

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, p.e. DVD ISOs.

* Fri Oct 22 2004 Karsten Hopp <karsten@redhat.de> 1.9.1-16.fc2

- build LFS version for FC2

* Wed Sep 29 2004 Karsten Hopp <karsten@redhat.de> 1.9.1-17

- additional LFS patch from Leonid Petrov to fix file lengths in http downloads

* Thu Sep 16 2004 Karsten Hopp <karsten@redhat.de> 1.9.1-16

- more fixes

* Tue Sep 14 2004 Karsten Hopp <karsten@redhat.de> 1.9.1-15

- added strtol fix from Leonid Petrov, reenable LFS

* Tue Sep 14 2004 Karsten Hopp <karsten@redhat.de> 1.9.1-14

- buildrequires gettext (#132519)

* Wed Sep 01 2004 Karsten Hopp <karsten@redhat.de> 1.9.1-13

- disable LFS patch for now, it breaks normal downloads (123524#c15)

* Tue Aug 31 2004 Karsten Hopp <karsten@redhat.de> 1.9.1-12

- move largefile stuff inside the configure script, it didn't get appended to CFLAGS

* Tue Aug 31 2004 Karsten Hopp <karsten@redhat.de> 1.9.1-11

- rebuild

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References

Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2004-351 2004-11-04
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 Instructions

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.

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