zsync is a file transfer program. It allows you to download a file from
a remote web server, where you have a copy of an older version of the
file on your computer already. zsync downloads only the new parts of the
file. It uses the same algorithm as rsync.
zsync does not require any special server software or a shell account on
the remote system (rsync, in comparison, requires that you have an rsh
or ssh account, or that the remote system runs rsyncd). Instead, it uses
a control file - a .zsync file - that describes the file to be
downloaded and enables zsync to work out which blocks it needs. This
file can be created by the admin of the web server hosting the download,
and placed alongside the file to download - it is generated once, then
any downloaders with zsync can use it. Alternatively, anyone can
download the file, make a .zsync and provide it to other users (this is
what I am doing for the moment).
===> The following configuration options are available for zsync-0.8.0_2:
DOCS=on: Build and/or install documentation
===> Use 'make config' to modify these settings
Upstream moved to GitHub and rewrote zsync in Go.
It's recommended to check the details from changelog.
Changelog:
https://github.com/cph6/zsync/blob/v0.8.0/NEWS
net/zsync: Update 0.6.6 => 0.8.0
Upstream moved to GitHub and rewrote zsync in Go.
It's recommended to check the details from changelog.
While here:
- Create a pkg-message to include this information.
- Add TESTING_UNSAFE, since it requires Apache webserver
running and have recursive directory problems.
Changelog:
https://github.com/cph6/zsync/blob/v0.8.0/NEWS
PR: 298908
Approved by: osa, vvd (Mentors, implicit)
net/zsync: Update 0.6.3 => 0.6.6, take maintainership
Change in 0.6.6
- Support and generate zsync 0.8 control files.
- Support MD5 and SHA-224 block checksums.
- Support SHA-256 file hash.
- Use OpenSSL for cryptgraphic digests.
Changes in 0.6.5
- Fix an incompatibility between zsync and the RFC7233 rules for
multipart/byteranges. zsync was written to RFC2046 a long time ago,
now obsolete; responses from newer HTTP servers following the newer
standard could cause zsync to fail to parse the response. zsync also
was not treating failing to find the MIME boundary as a hard error and
retrying indefinitely; changed to report this as an error.
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net/zsync: update 0.6.2 => 0.6.3
Changelog:
- Performance improvements for large (>250MB) files - on multi-gigabyte
files this can be a very large improvement.
- Tuning to reduce likelyhood of hitting bad performance due to bad
checksum distribution.
- Fix case where client would think download succeeded and try verifying
it when it had really failed.
- Fix a problem where the client could get into a loop retrieving data
if the remote returned data inconsistent with the .zsync file.
- Improvements to some of the error and progress messages.
- Stop zsync requesting bytes past the end of the target file.
- Fix bug where mtime would be set to something offset from the intended
value due to timezones.
- Fix a case where auth headers could be send to the wrong server across
a redirect. Send auth headers unconditionally when username & password
are provided.
- Fix compilation with gcc-14.
- Other optimisations.
PR: 287104
Remove WWW entries moved into port Makefiles
Commit b7f05445c00f has added WWW entries to port Makefiles based on
WWW: lines in pkg-descr files.
This commit removes the WWW: lines of moved-over URLs from these
pkg-descr files.
Approved by: portmgr (tcberner)
Add WWW entries to port Makefiles
It has been common practice to have one or more URLs at the end of the
ports' pkg-descr files, one per line and prefixed with "WWW:". These
URLs should point at a project website or other relevant resources.
Access to these URLs required processing of the pkg-descr files, and
they have often become stale over time. If more than one such URL was
present in a pkg-descr file, only the first one was tarnsfered into
the port INDEX, but for many ports only the last line did contain the
port specific URL to further information.
There have been several proposals to make a project URL available as
a macro in the ports' Makefiles, over time.
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net: remove 'Created by' lines
A big Thank You to the original contributors of these ports:
* <ports@c0decafe.net>
* Aaron Dalton <aaron@FreeBSD.org>
* Aaron Straup Cope <ascope@cpan.org>
* Aaron Zauner <az_mail@gmx.at>
* Adam Jette <jettea46@yahoo.com>
* Adam Weinberger <adamw@FreeBSD.org>
* Alan Eldridge <alane@geeksrus.net>
* Alex Bakhtin <Alex.Bakhtin@gmail.com>
* Alex Deiter <Alex.Deiter@Gmail.COM>
* Alex Dupre <ale@FreeBSD.org>
* Alex Dupre <sysadmin@alexdupre.com>
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Remove indefinite articles and trailing periods from COMMENT, plus minor
COMMENT typos and surrounding whitespace fixes. A few Makefiles where not
included as they contain Latin-1 characters that break the Phabricator
workflow. Category N.
CR: D307
Approved by: portmgr (bapt)
Update zsync to 0.4.1.
From the maintainter's webpage (http://zsync.moria.org.uk/):
This is just a bugfix release. Someone noticed that zsync would be
vulnerable to CAN-2005-2096, due to it's use of zlib code. So the
patch for that is now done.
This release also includes some HTTP protocol fixes, as there have
been some complaints/observations on how zsync failed to correctly
implement some details from the standard.
Although this port was committed via PR ports/76300 and assigned to ports@,
a nearly identical PR (ports/75835) was submitted by gordon in which he
claimed maintainership. Award it to him.
