The wget2-wget package provides a shim for the old wget by symlinking to the wget2 binary. However, wget provides a command line option --show-progress that is not supported in wget2. This causes scripts to fail when they use --show-progress. Solution would be to have the wget symlink be replaced with a shell script that translates --show-progress to --progress=bar for example. It would also be better to include the man page of the last "original" wget as wget.1 man page instead of linking to the wget2 man page: <pre>$ zcat /usr/share/man/man1/wget.1.gz .so man1/wget2.1</pre> This will then also show the --show-progress option that wget2 does not have. Reproducible: Always
It seems to be a better solution for this specific issue is in the works at wget2: https://gitlab.com/gnuwget/wget2/-/merge_requests/558/diffs?commit_id=42673fd8d6ade79c0f5e230fb16a368e711dd956 (adding --show-progress to wget2) Nevertheless, the man page for wget.1 still stands. Think Fedora should still provide wget1 as (compat) option or a script that makes sure all and only the wget1 command line should be supported with the shim.
Looks like the alias was added: https://gitlab.com/gnuwget/wget2/-/commit/bc77fe1c8a3ebefa07eff7ec1088fb58876a03d3
That's what I already mentioned in comment #1 :-) It would solve my current problem, but still I'm wondering whether full wget1 compatibility can/should be reached with simply symlinking wget2... I don't expect the wget2.1 man page to be updated with an option that was deprecated at the same time it was added, so the request for the original wget1 man page remains.
FEDORA-2025-76fa3f6996 (wget2-2.2.0-3.fc43) has been submitted as an update to Fedora 43. https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2025-76fa3f6996
FEDORA-2025-76fa3f6996 (wget2-2.2.0-3.fc43) has been pushed to the Fedora 43 stable repository. If problem still persists, please make note of it in this bug report.
FEDORA-2025-00a3e5e55d (wget2-2.2.0-2.fc40) has been submitted as an update to Fedora 40. https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2025-00a3e5e55d
FEDORA-2025-366f5a6734 (wget2-2.2.0-3.fc42) has been submitted as an update to Fedora 42. https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2025-366f5a6734
FEDORA-2025-a763e04259 (wget2-2.2.0-2.fc41) has been submitted as an update to Fedora 41. https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2025-a763e04259
FEDORA-EPEL-2025-13dd8d95be (wget2-2.2.0-3.el10_1) has been submitted as an update to Fedora EPEL 10.1. https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-EPEL-2025-13dd8d95be
FEDORA-EPEL-2025-141f5fb5cb (wget2-2.2.0-3.el10_0) has been submitted as an update to Fedora EPEL 10.0. https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-EPEL-2025-141f5fb5cb
Thanks for the quick update. Seems find on Fedora 41!
FEDORA-2025-a763e04259 (wget2-2.2.0-2.fc41) has been pushed to the Fedora 41 stable repository. If problem still persists, please make note of it in this bug report.
FEDORA-2025-366f5a6734 has been pushed to the Fedora 42 testing repository. Soon you'll be able to install the update with the following command: `sudo dnf upgrade --enablerepo=updates-testing --refresh --advisory=FEDORA-2025-366f5a6734` You can provide feedback for this update here: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2025-366f5a6734 See also https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Updates_Testing for more information on how to test updates.
FEDORA-EPEL-2025-141f5fb5cb (wget2-2.2.0-3.el10_0) has been pushed to the Fedora EPEL 10.0 stable repository. If problem still persists, please make note of it in this bug report.
FEDORA-EPEL-2025-13dd8d95be has been pushed to the Fedora EPEL 10.1 testing repository. You can provide feedback for this update here: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-EPEL-2025-13dd8d95be See also https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Updates_Testing for more information on how to test updates.
FEDORA-EPEL-2025-c910615064 has been pushed to the Fedora EPEL 9 testing repository. You can provide feedback for this update here: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-EPEL-2025-c910615064 See also https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Updates_Testing for more information on how to test updates.
FEDORA-2025-00a3e5e55d has been pushed to the Fedora 40 testing repository. Soon you'll be able to install the update with the following command: `sudo dnf upgrade --enablerepo=updates-testing --refresh --advisory=FEDORA-2025-00a3e5e55d` You can provide feedback for this update here: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2025-00a3e5e55d See also https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Updates_Testing for more information on how to test updates.
FEDORA-2025-00a3e5e55d (wget2-2.2.0-2.fc40) has been pushed to the Fedora 40 stable repository. If problem still persists, please make note of it in this bug report.
FEDORA-EPEL-2025-13dd8d95be (wget2-2.2.0-3.el10_1) has been pushed to the Fedora EPEL 10.1 stable repository. If problem still persists, please make note of it in this bug report.
FEDORA-EPEL-2025-c910615064 (wget2-2.2.0-3.el9) has been pushed to the Fedora EPEL 9 stable repository. If problem still persists, please make note of it in this bug report.
FEDORA-2025-366f5a6734 (wget2-2.2.0-3.fc42) has been pushed to the Fedora 42 stable repository. If problem still persists, please make note of it in this bug report.