--- rsyncrypto.man.orig 2008-10-22 11:34:49 UTC +++ rsyncrypto.man @@ -236,10 +236,10 @@ it. In order not to become rsync unfriendly due to the it. In order not to become rsync unfriendly due to the compression, \fBrsyncrypto\fP will search the path for an instance of .BR gzip (1) -that supports the \fB\-\-rsyncable\fP option. If the system's default gzip does -not support this option (all Debian and derivatives, as well as some others, support it), use -this option to tell \fBrsyncrypto\fP to use a different instance of gzip. The -tests directory of rsyncrypto's source has a file called "gzip", that does NULL +that supports the \fB\-\-rsyncable\fP option. FreeBSD base system's default gzip doesn't +support this option, so this port builds with archivers/gzip from ports tree, which does. +You still can use this option to tell \fBrsyncrypto\fP to use a different instance of gzip. +The tests directory of rsyncrypto's source has a file called "gzip", that does NULL compression by redirecting the input and output to .BR cat (1). .TP