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A wget update has been released for Fedora Core 2

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



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Update Information:

This new release of wget adds support for large files >2Gb, p.e. DVD ISOs.

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* 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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This update can be downloaded from:
http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/2/

081dfa8d9210b51a95a5493287df0687 SRPMS/wget-1.9.1-16.fc2.src.rpm
4c0952ebecb81e747514158ccaa49afc x86_64/wget-1.9.1-16.fc2.x86_64.rpm
530d153e5e34b729285fc1bf61f7aa52 x86_64/debug/wget-debuginfo-1.9.1-16.fc2.x86_64.rpm
742d2a8bc5d970b61654004780699dbf i386/wget-1.9.1-16.fc2.i386.rpm
751595f18b754d01199792dfedd2599d 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.