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diff --git a/net-misc/zsync/metadata.xml b/net-misc/zsync/metadata.xml index ca294a5c6757..a35011bd04b5 100644 --- a/net-misc/zsync/metadata.xml +++ b/net-misc/zsync/metadata.xml @@ -1,25 +1,25 @@ <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <!DOCTYPE pkgmetadata SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/metadata.dtd"> <pkgmetadata> - <maintainer type="person"> - <email>robbat2@gentoo.org</email> - </maintainer> - <longdescription lang="en"> + <maintainer type="person"> + <email>robbat2@gentoo.org</email> + </maintainer> + <longdescription lang="en"> From the zsync web page: - "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 + "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 + 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)." </longdescription> </pkgmetadata> |