sbosrcarch: make wget binary a config option

1 files changed, 21 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/sbosrcarch.conf b/sbosrcarch.conf
index 4d29c28..311f99b 100644
--- a/sbosrcarch.conf
+++ b/sbosrcarch.conf
@@ -62,6 +62,11 @@ $maxfilemegs = 1;
 
 $symlinks = 0;
 
+## $wget (string, optional, default "wget")
+# Path to wget binary. Absolute paths will be used as-is, otherwise $PATH
+# will be searched.
+$wget = "wget";
+
 ## $wgetargs (string, optional, default "")
 # Extra arguments to pass to wget. We're already creating a config file
 # and using it in place of .wgetrc and /etc/wgetrc, you don't need to
@@ -69,6 +74,22 @@ $symlinks = 0;
 
 $wgetargs = "";
 
+# If your wget is older than version 1.14 or so, sbosrcarch will complain
+# that it doesn't support the --config option. In that case, the
+# $wgetrc_contents below won't be used. You can either copy $wgetrc_contents
+# to ~/.wgetrc, or use $wgetargs to set the config options on the command
+# line. Something like this:
+
+# $wgetargs =
+#  "--timeout=30 ".
+#  "--user-agent='Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1)' ".
+#  "--no-check-certificate ".
+#  "--no-content-disposition";
+
+# Unfortunately there's not a --no-robots option. Upgrading wget is a
+# better solution, and you can compile it with e.g. --prefix=/home/you/wget.new,
+# and set $wget = "/home/you/wget.new/bin/wget" above.
+
 ## $wgetrc_contents (string, optional, see "man wget" and/or the comments in
 # /etc/wgetrc for more information).