This option sets GID manually. aria2 identifies each download by the
ID called GID. The GID must be hex string of 16 characters, thus
[0-9a-zA-Z] are allowed and leading zeros must not be stripped. The
GID all 0 is reserved and must not be used. The GID must be unique,
otherwise error is reported and the download is not added. This
option is useful when restoring the sessions saved using
--save-session option. If this option is not used, new GID is
generated by aria2.
--file-allocation option can now take new value 'trunc'. 'trunc' uses
ftruncate() system call or platform-specific counterpart to truncate a
file to a specified length.
This is because when generating man page, if a word starting '.' is
put in the beginning of the line, it will be treated as macro. This
sounds like docutils bug, but it will not be fixed soon, so we do this
as a workaround.
This will prevent `make clean` in unpacked archive from removing
aria2c.1. We don't want to remove them by `make clean` because to
generate aria2c.1, user has to install Sphinx. That is why we
distribute aria2c.1 in the archive.
Sphinx HTML markups are beautiful, but it uses many asset files, such
as stylesheets, javascripts and images. While it is no problem to
upload them in web site, but distributing and installing them in
individual user have some problems. For example, Sphinx uses same
assets for generated sites, so if many applications uses Sphinx
generated docs and they are installed in the PC, it is huge waste of
the disk space. I'm also not comfortable to copy HTML trees to the
install directory using 'cp -r' command. I seeked other format like
pdf and texi which Sphinx can generate but annoyingly they all convert
'--' into en-dash and there is no workaround to disable it. So I
decided to drop HTML manual from distribution and installation. For
users who want to HTML version manual, see it online:
http://aria2.sourceforge.net/manual/en/html/