| Port details |
- zsync File transfer program
- 0.6.6 net
=2 0.6.3Version of this port present on the latest quarterly branch. - Maintainer: chris.longros@gmail.com
 - Port Added: 2005-01-16 08:28:46
- Last Update: 2026-08-19 10:52:22
- Commit Hash: 58f4429
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- License: ART20
- WWW:
- https://zsync.moria.org.uk/
- Description:
- 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).
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- Manual pages:
-
- pkg-plist: as obtained via:
make generate-plist - USE_RC_SUBR (Service Scripts)
- no SUBR information found for this port
- Dependency lines:
-
- To install the port:
- cd /usr/ports/net/zsync/ && make install clean
- To add the package, run one of these commands:
- pkg install net/zsync
- pkg install zsync
NOTE: If this package has multiple flavors (see below), then use one of them instead of the name specified above.- PKGNAME: zsync
- Flavors: there is no flavor information for this port.
- distinfo:
- TIMESTAMP = 1787081011
SHA256 (zsync-0.6.6.tar.bz2) = 876df4826fd128e72a38a81a6b13f919b76d0c40ad0b67993c526f0e26d904c8
SIZE (zsync-0.6.6.tar.bz2) = 273097
Packages (timestamps in pop-ups are UTC):
- Dependencies
- NOTE: FreshPorts displays only information on required and default dependencies. Optional dependencies are not covered.
- Build dependencies:
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- autoconf>=2.73 : devel/autoconf
- automake>=1.18.1 : devel/automake
- There are no ports dependent upon this port
Configuration Options:
- ===> The following configuration options are available for zsync-0.6.6:
DOCS=on: Build and/or install documentation
===> Use 'make config' to modify these settings
- Options name:
- net_zsync
- USES:
- autoreconf ssl tar:bzip2
- FreshPorts was unable to extract/find any pkg message
- Master Sites:
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| Commit History - (may be incomplete: for full details, see links to repositories near top of page) |
| Commit | Credits | Log message |
0.6.6 19 Aug 2026 10:52:22
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Vladimir Druzenko (vvd)  Author: Christos Longros |
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. (Only the first 15 lines of the commit message are shown above ) |
0.6.3 28 May 2025 15:33:47
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Vladimir Druzenko (vvd)  Author: Chris Hutchinson |
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 |
0.6.2_2 09 Jan 2024 10:32:17
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Baptiste Daroussin (bapt)  |
MANPREFIX: eleminate its usage and move man to share/man |
07 Sep 2022 21:58:51
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Stefan Eßer (se)  |
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) |
0.6.2_2 07 Sep 2022 21:10:59
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Stefan Eßer (se)  |
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.
(Only the first 15 lines of the commit message are shown above ) |
0.6.2_2 20 Jul 2022 14:22:37
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Tobias C. Berner (tcberner)  |
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> (Only the first 15 lines of the commit message are shown above ) |
0.6.2_2 06 Apr 2021 14:31:07
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Mathieu Arnold (mat)  |
Remove # $FreeBSD$ from Makefiles. |
0.6.2_2 27 Oct 2020 11:20:48
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0mp  |
Sort variables, lint, and install manuals at share/man |
0.6.2_1 04 Oct 2017 08:11:15
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bapt  |
Fix AC_TRY_COMPILE usage to avoid nested function
Obtained from: OpenBSD |
0.6.2 22 Oct 2015 10:30:46
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amdmi3  |
- Add LICENSE
- Switch to options helpers |
0.6.2 14 Oct 2015 11:04:11
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culot  |
- Reassign lippe@'s ports after his commit bit was taken in for safekeeping |
0.6.2 29 Jul 2014 21:43:18
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adamw  |
Convert some more USE_BZIP2 to USES=tar:bzip2
Approved by: portmgr (not really, but touches unstaged ports) |
0.6.2 10 Jul 2014 12:13:12
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olgeni  |
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) |
0.6.2 25 Feb 2014 08:44:44
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ehaupt  |
Support staging |
0.6.2 20 Sep 2013 22:10:25
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bapt  |
Add NO_STAGE all over the place in preparation for the staging support (cat:
net) |
0.6.2 13 Feb 2011 04:05:45
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lippe  |
- Update to 0.6.2. |
0.6.1 07 Jun 2009 00:43:25
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lippe  |
- Update to 0.6.1.
PR: ports/134707
Submitted by: Lapo Luchini <lapo@lapo.it> |
0.5 20 Aug 2008 06:59:41
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linimon  |
Assign to new maintainer.
Approved by: old maintainer
Hat: portmgr |
0.5 16 Mar 2008 17:08:04
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lippe  |
- Update to 0.5.
- Update MASTER_SITES.
- Makefile cleanup.
PR: ports/119967
Submitted by: lippe (myself)
Approved by: gabor (mentor), maintainer timeout (> 2 weeks) |
0.4.2 22 Jan 2006 21:24:05
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edwin  |
SHA256ify
Approved by: krion@ |
0.4.2 17 Oct 2005 23:28:33
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gordon  |
Update zsync from 0.4.1 to 0.4.2. |
0.4.1 30 Sep 2005 23:15:50
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gordon  |
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. |
0.4.0 08 Jul 2005 23:42:40
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gordon  |
Update zsync to 0.4.0. |
0.3.3 12 Apr 2005 16:21:36
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gordon  |
Update to 0.3.3
PR: ports/79736
Submitted by: Emil Mikulic <emil@cs.rmit.edu.au> |
0.2.2 15 Feb 2005 16:13:50
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pav  |
- Update to 0.2.2
PR: ports/77538
Submitted by: gordon (maintainer) |
0.1.6 29 Jan 2005 18:00:12
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linimon  |
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. |
0.1.6 16 Jan 2005 08:28:13
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ijliao  |
add zsync 0.1.6
A file transfer program
PR: 76300
Submitted by: Gea-Suan Lin <gslin@ccca.nctu.edu.tw> |