[Bug 499] New: zsync - Partial/differential file transfer client over HTTP

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http://bugzilla.rpmfusion.org/show_bug.cgi?id=499

           Summary: zsync - Partial/differential file transfer client over
                    HTTP
           Product: Package Reviews
           Version: Current
          Platform: All
        OS/Version: GNU/Linux
            Status: NEW
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P5
         Component: Review Request
        AssignedTo: rpmfusion-package-review at rpmfusion.org
        ReportedBy: cassmodiah at fedoraproject.org
                CC: rpmfusion-package-review at rpmfusion.org
        Depends on: 30
   Estimated Hours: 0.0


SPEC:
http://cassmodiah.fedorapeople.org/zsync-0.6/zsync.spec

SRPM:
http://cassmodiah.fedorapeople.org/zsync-0.6/zsync-0.6-2.el4.src.rpm

Description:
zsync is a file transfer program. It allows you to download a file from
a remote 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.

zsync uses the same algorithm as rsync. However, where rsync is designed
for synchronising data from one computer to another within an organisation,
zsync is designed for file distribution, with one file on a server to be
distributed to thousands of downloaders. zsync requires no special server
software just a web server to host the files and imposes no extra load on
the server, making it ideal for large scale file distribution.


RPMLint-Issues:
rpmlint is silent


Why not Fedora?
zsync includes a modified zlib, we (2 and a half maintainers) tried split out
the modification as a seperate function but we couldn't rebuild that against
fedora zlib. patching out zlib incl. the zlibchanges fails. included
dependencies are not permitted in fedora! I's very ugly but I chatted with
knurd (Thorsten Leemhuis) and he said, this is not nice but should be possible
for rpmfusion. :-)


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