--- toast 2005/10/03 05:48:05 1.417 +++ toast 2005/10/04 05:27:12 1.418 @@ -271,7 +271,7 @@ "quiet" => "false", "expand" => "true", "autofind" => "true", - "autochange" => "true", + "autochange" => "false", "autorename" => "true", "autoenv" => "true", "autoclean" => "true", @@ -6827,16 +6827,14 @@ =item S<B<--autochange> | B<--noautochange>> -When B<autochange> is enabled, B<toast get> may replace the URLs -stored by B<toast add> with the actual URLs of the files it downloaded. -This matters if an URL given on the command line points to an HTML page or -FTP directory rather than to an actual archive to be extracted and built. -In order to ensure consistent results, it is often desirable to store the -more specific URLs, especially if B<autopurge> is enabled. If this option -is disabled, B<toast get> will still follow links in the usual way, but -stored URLs will be left untouched, and future invocations of B<toast get> -may end up downloading different files for the same package if new files -or links have since been added to a page or directory. Default: enabled. +When B<autochange> is enabled, B<toast get> may replace the URLs stored by +B<toast add> with the actual URLs of the files it downloaded. When it is +disabled, URLs stored by B<toast add> will never change without warning. +This only matters in cases where the URL stored by B<toast add> actually +points to an HTML page or FTP directory, which used to happen all the time +back when the B<toast find> heuristic was more naive and the B<expand> +option didn't exist. Enabling this option now seems more likely to +cause problems than to solve them. Default: disabled. =item S<B<--autorename> | B<--noautorename>>