net/zsync 0.6.2_2 DragonFly

File transfer program

System: DragonFly
Repository: DPorts
Maintainer: [email protected] (as in FreeBSD)
License: ART20
Categories: net
Package size: 73.6 KiB, 207.2 KiB installed

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).

In the other systems

System

Port

Version

DragonFly

net/zsync

0.6.2_2

FreeBSD

net/zsync

0.8.0_2

OpenBSD

net/zsync

0.6.6

NetBSD

net/zsync

0.6.2nb1

MidnightBSD

net/zsync

0.6.3

Install

Binary package:

pkg install zsync

From DPorts:

cd /usr/dports/net/zsync && make install clean

Dependencies

No port depends on this one.

Configuration

No options to configure.

Service scripts: none

Message after installing

===>   NOTICE:

The zsync port currently does not have a maintainer. As a result, it is
more likely to have unresolved issues, not be up-to-date, or even be removed in
the future. To volunteer to maintain this port, please create an issue at:

https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla

More information about port maintainership is available at:

https://docs.freebsd.org/en/articles/contributing/#ports-contributing