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 Fri Sep 03, this package will be pushed as an update of Fedora Core 2. Thanks Karsten --------------------------------------------------------------------- Fedora Test Update Notification FEDORA-2004-281 2004-08-28 --------------------------------------------------------------------- Product : Fedora Core 2 Name : wget Version : 1.9.1 Release : 7 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 update provides support for large files >2Gb --------------------------------------------------------------------- * Fri Aug 27 2004 Karsten Hopp <karsten(a)redhat.de&gt; 1.9.1-7 - clean up manpage (#117519) - buildrequire texinfo (#123780) - LFS patch, based on wget-LFS-20040630.patch from Leonid Petrov (#123524, #124628, #115348) * Tue Jun 15 2004 Elliot Lee <sopwith(a)redhat.com&gt; - rebuilt --------------------------------------------------------------------- This update can be downloaded from: http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/testing/2/ 3bf92f2e48be088bf40be7ee884df4fc SRPMS/wget-1.9.1-7.src.rpm 255d935ecf2cdc57d22b7acf46d8e9c9 x86_64/wget-1.9.1-7.x86_64.rpm f454efbf359eb0a7d1b63c93951c300a x86_64/debug/wget-debuginfo-1.9.1-7.x86_64.rpm b8d61b4023f8d25087d19f3b3746195f i386/wget-1.9.1-7.i386.rpm 9399ccccf57b4352b2a317e38e1df117 i386/debug/wget-debuginfo-1.9.1-7.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://fedora.redhat.com/updates/testing/fedora-core-2 --------------------------------------------------------------------- -- Karsten Hopp <karsten(a)redhat.de&gt; 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