wget: unrecognised option: read-timeout

[WhyNotHugo]

Trying to install arial fails due to a bogus wget flag.

$ winetricks arial
warning: taskset/cpuset not available on your platform!
Executing mkdir -p /home/hugo/wine
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warning: You are using a 64-bit WINEPREFIX. Note that many verbs only install 32-bit versions of packages. If you encounter problems, please retest in a clean 32-bit WINEPREFIX before reporting a bug.
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Using winetricks 20220411 - sha256sum: 69856050cfe9d97902dfd68c1ad42a10a4be0fe76660744126d7e3ed75610495 with wine-7.22 and WINEARCH=win64
Executing w_do_call arial
Executing mkdir -p /home/hugo/wine
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warning: You are using a 64-bit WINEPREFIX. Note that many verbs only install 32-bit versions of packages. If you encounter problems, please retest in a clean 32-bit WINEPREFIX before reporting a bug.
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Executing load_arial 
Executing mkdir -p /home/hugo/.cache/winetricks/corefonts
Executing cd /home/hugo/.cache/winetricks/corefonts
Downloading https://mirrors.kernel.org/gentoo/distfiles/arial32.exe to /home/hugo/.cache/winetricks/corefonts
wget: unrecognised option: read-timeout
BusyBox v1.35.0 (2023-01-07 08:37:08 UTC) multi-call binary.

Usage: wget [-cqS] [--spider] [-O FILE] [-o LOGFILE] [--header STR]
	[--post-data STR | --post-file FILE] [-Y on/off]
	[-P DIR] [-U AGENT] [-T SEC] URL...

Retrieve files via HTTP or FTP

	--spider	Only check URL existence: $? is 0 if exists
	--header STR	Add STR (of form 'header: value') to headers
	--post-data STR	Send STR using POST method
	--post-file FILE	Send FILE using POST method
	-c		Continue retrieval of aborted transfer
	-q		Quiet
	-P DIR		Save to DIR (default .)
	-S    		Show server response
	-T SEC		Network read timeout is SEC seconds
	-O FILE		Save to FILE ('-' for stdout)
	-o LOGFILE	Log messages to FILE
	-U STR		Use STR for User-Agent header
	-Y on/off	Use proxy
Executing cd /home/hugo/.cache/winetricks/corefonts
Downloading https://web.archive.org/web/2000/https://mirrors.kernel.org/gentoo/distfiles/arial32.exe to /home/hugo/.cache/winetricks/corefonts
wget: unrecognised option: read-timeout
BusyBox v1.35.0 (2023-01-07 08:37:08 UTC) multi-call binary.

Usage: wget [-cqS] [--spider] [-O FILE] [-o LOGFILE] [--header STR]
	[--post-data STR | --post-file FILE] [-Y on/off]
	[-P DIR] [-U AGENT] [-T SEC] URL...

Retrieve files via HTTP or FTP

	--spider	Only check URL existence: $? is 0 if exists
	--header STR	Add STR (of form 'header: value') to headers
	--post-data STR	Send STR using POST method
	--post-file FILE	Send FILE using POST method
	-c		Continue retrieval of aborted transfer
	-q		Quiet
	-P DIR		Save to DIR (default .)
	-S    		Show server response
	-T SEC		Network read timeout is SEC seconds
	-O FILE		Save to FILE ('-' for stdout)
	-o LOGFILE	Log messages to FILE
	-U STR		Use STR for User-Agent header
	-Y on/off	Use proxy
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warning: Downloading https://web.archive.org/web/2000/https://mirrors.kernel.org/gentoo/distfiles/arial32.exe failed
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IIRC, A few different wget implementations exist.
Perhaps it's best to use curl which has the same API everywhere?

[WhyNotHugo]

Installing gnu wget seems to serve as a workaround.

[WhyNotHugo]

Huh -T is available in both gnu wget and busybox wget, maybe it's safe enough to use that flag instead of --read-timeout.

[austin987]

If you want to use curl, you can use WINETRICKS_DOWNLOADER=curl winetricks ..., or install GNU wget, as you found.

Arguably, this is a bug in BusyBox; it just needs to accept the long option in addition to the short option to be compatible.

For this particular problem though, if you'd like to send a PR to change it to use -T, that's fine. Personally, I prefer long options to short in scripts, as they're easier to understand at a glance, though that code already has a mix..

I don't know if anyone has tested Winetricks with BusyBox before, so you may run into more issues. Feel free to open bugs (though they may end up being bugs for BusyBox ;)).

[WhyNotHugo]

If you want to use curl, you can use WINETRICKS_DOWNLOADER=curl winetricks ..., or install GNU wget, as you found.

I'll mention this on the Alpine side, it might be worth tweaking the package (I think pulling gnu wget as a dependency makes sense).

Arguably, this is a bug in BusyBox; it just needs to accept the long option in addition to the short option to be compatible.

BusyBox doesn't do GNU-style options, only POSIX-style, so this change is unlikely to happen.

For this particular problem though, if you'd like to send a PR to change it to use -T, that's fine. Personally, I prefer long options to short in scripts, as they're easier to understand at a glance, though that code already has a mix..

I'll see if this can be resolved downstream first, otherwise I'll come back with a patch.

I don't know if anyone has tested Winetricks with BusyBox before, so you may run into more issues. Feel free to open bugs (though they may end up being bugs for BusyBox ;)).

I've hit no other issues with winetricks on busybox so far :)

[WhyNotHugo]

Addresses downstream: https://gitlab.alpinelinux.org/alpine/aports/-/commit/3c797b34d9389d473a345b8ed193ce367ab76125

Thanks!

[austin987]

Arguably, this is a bug in BusyBox; it just needs to accept the long option in addition to the short option to be compatible.

BusyBox doesn't do GNU-style options, only POSIX-style, so this change is unlikely to happen.

Interesting. I don't recall that being a limitation when I last used it. Their docs certainly list some GNU style options: https://www.busybox.net/downloads/BusyBox.html

(e.g., chpasswd/dumpleases/etc.).

I don't know if anyone has tested Winetricks with BusyBox before, so you may run into more issues. Feel free to open bugs (though they may end up being bugs for BusyBox ;)).

I've hit no other issues with winetricks on busybox so far :)

Awesome! Great to hear!