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Re: watch file help



On Sat, 2010-08-21 at 12:07 -0500, Chris wrote:
> Greetings everyone,
> 
> I am trying to set my debian/watch correctly. The upstream
> site allows you to download (wget for example) with something like:
> 
> wget http://www.foo.com/ihave/files/here/foo.tar.gz
> 
> However, the source code behind URL shows this:
> http://www.foo.com/ihave/files/here/foo.tar.gz?format=raw
> 
> Simply having http://www.foo.com/ihave/files/here/foo-(.*)\.tar\.gz
> in the debian/watch files downloads an html file.
> 
> Can someone please advise on the proper way to get a file with the 
> ?format=raw

Something like:

    opts=filenamemangle=s/\?format=raw$// \
    http://www.foo.com/ihave/files/here/foo-(.*)\.tar\.gz\?format=raw

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings
Once a job is fouled up, anything done to improve it makes it worse.

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