Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 74996
wget instructions fail for older versions of wget
Last modified: 2009-08-19 23:02:24 EDT
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.0; T312461; .NET CLR 1.0.3705) Description of problem: The page https://rhn.redhat.com/network/channel/download_isos.pxt recommends the use of wget for downloading ISOs, via the command "wget - c 'very_long_url'". This command fails for older versions of wget, such as RedHat 7.0's wget-1.5.3-10, so I think you should change the documentation on this page. The error message displayed by wget is: Connecting to https:21... https: Host not found I think your documentation should add a sentence like this: "If you experience problems with wget, try upgrading to the latest version of wget at http://www.gnu.org/software/wget/wget.html." Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Use RedHat 7.0 with the latest patches. 2. Visit https://rhn.redhat.com/network/channel/download_isos.pxt with a web browser. 3. Right-click on an ISO link and copy the URL to the copy/paste buffer. 4. Type "/usr/bin/wget -c " and paste the ISO URL onto the command line, within single quotes. 5. Press ENTER. 6. Get an error message like this: => `Psyche-i386-disc1.iso' Connecting to https:21... https: Host not found Actual Results: => `Psyche-i386-disc1.iso' Connecting to https:21... https: Host not found Expected Results: wget should have downloaded the selected ISO. Later versions of wget such as 1.8.2 work fine. That's why you should update your doc. Additional info:
It looks like the page says to use curl instead of wget now.
Since rhn now officially advocates CURL instead of wget, this bug is no longer valid -- closing.