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author | Gerald Combs <gerald@wireshark.org> | 2015-04-06 11:30:33 -0700 |
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committer | Gerald Combs <gerald@wireshark.org> | 2015-04-06 19:28:49 +0000 |
commit | 914796190828dc91cf9f51ffa553cf7ed29b8515 (patch) | |
tree | bd574f40707ce6ef153f3010b6e368534114db15 | |
parent | 1871fb2b0d9628707661776cfa1b35f210e5e58e (diff) |
Add a warning about Chocolatey's Wget package.
Its CA certificate configuration appears to be incomplete. Recommend
Cygwin's instead.
Change-Id: I0e7ddbfbb2a37f2872a820442e2d185f20ef551e
Reviewed-on: https://code.wireshark.org/review/7948
Reviewed-by: Gerald Combs <gerald@wireshark.org>
-rw-r--r-- | docbook/wsdg_src/WSDG_chapter_tools.asciidoc | 10 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/docbook/wsdg_src/WSDG_chapter_tools.asciidoc b/docbook/wsdg_src/WSDG_chapter_tools.asciidoc index 72eeb34cf9..f3baa93580 100644 --- a/docbook/wsdg_src/WSDG_chapter_tools.asciidoc +++ b/docbook/wsdg_src/WSDG_chapter_tools.asciidoc @@ -1141,7 +1141,7 @@ However, the version string may vary. ==== Windows native: patch -The Windows native Git tools provide patch. A native Windows patch package can be obtained from +The Windows native Git tools provide patch. A native Windows patch package can be obtained from http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/[]. The installation should be straightforward. @@ -1152,13 +1152,15 @@ installation should be straightforward. GNU wget is used to download files from the internet using the command line. GNU wget is available for most of the UNIX-like platforms and as the wget -package from the <<ChToolsCygwin,Cygwin setup>> and also using Chocolatey: +package from the <<ChToolsCygwin,Cygwin setup>> and also using Chocolatey. +At the time of writing the native Chocolatey wget package had incomplete +CA certificate support. As a result the Cygwin package is recommended: ---- -PS$> choco install Wget +PS$> choco install wget -source cygwin ---- -You will only need wget, if you want to use the Windows automated library +You will only need wget if you want to use the Windows automated library download, see <<ChLibsSetup>>for details. If GNU wget isn't already installed or available as a package for your platform |