Public bug reported: Binary package hint: zsync
Ubuntu 9.10 i386, zsync 0.6 ISSUE: When file is downloaded with zsync, timestamp is set to the time when download was finished, timestamp at HTTP server is ignored. I can compare with WGET that keeps timestamp as reported by HTTP server. EXAMPLE: FILE http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/daily/current/lucid-alternate-i386.iso at HTTP server: lucid-alternate-i386.iso 14-Mar-2010 07:36 642M Alternate install CD for PC (Intel x86) computers (standard download) lucid-alternate-i386.iso.zsync 14-Mar-2010 07:39 1.3M Alternate install CD for PC (Intel x86) computers (standard download) $ zsync -V zsync v0.6 (compiled Nov 8 2009 23:19:49) By Colin Phipps <c...@moria.org.uk> Published under the Artistic License v2, see the COPYING file for details. 1) File downloaded with ZSYNC: $ zsync http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/daily/current/lucid-alternate-i386.iso.zsync ... $ ls -l lucid-alternate-i386.iso -rw------- 1 psl psl 673048576 2010-03-14 13:33 lucid-alternate-i386.iso 2) File downloaded with WGET: $ wget http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/daily/current/lucid-alternate-i386.iso ... $ ls -l lucid-alternate-i386.iso -rw-r--r-- 1 psl psl 673048576 2010-03-14 08:36 lucid-alternate-i386.iso SUMARY: ZSYNC set timestamp to 2010-03-14 13:33 (CET); download was finished at this time... WGET set timestamp to 2010-03-14 08:36 (CET); download finished later than ZSYNC but timestamp is correct... HTTP server reports 2010-03-14 07:36 (GMT) I noticed that ZSYNC file (lucid-alternate-i386.iso.zsync) doesn't list information about file timestamp. Maybe this information should be added to future version of ZSYNC meta file, it can be useful and more reliable than timestemp reported by HTTP server. ZSYNC header, no timestamp information is there: zsync: 0.5 Filename: lucid-alternate-i386.iso Blocksize: 4096 Length: 673048576 Hash-Lengths: 2,3,5 URL: lucid-alternate-i386.iso SHA-1: 9fd2e7fa32bdfcf3aebcb5e642db34cc99a825cd ** Affects: zsync (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New -- zsync doesn't prevent timestamp of downloaded file https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/538710 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
