Re: gzip: unrecognized option `--rsyncable'

[Vladimir B. <vb...@gm...>]

Hi Shachar, Guillaume, all

On Sat, 26 Sep 2015 15:57:16 +0200
Guillaume Friloux <gui...@fr...> wrote:
> Le 2015/09/26 14:49, Shachar Shemesh a écrit :
> > On 26/09/15 15:32, Vladimir Botka wrote:
> >> I run command [1] in FreeBSD and see gzip error [2]. Would it be
> >> possible to help me? Thank you.
> >
> > In the past, --rsyncable wasn't part of vanilla gzip. It is possible
> > that FreeBSD doesn't include it. I have no idea if it made it into
> > vanilla gzip or not. Almost all Linux distributions include it.
> 
> It has never made it upstream.
> But Vladimir should be able to rebuild gzip by enabling rsyncable : 
> https://www.freshports.org/archivers/gzip/

	thank you very much for the comments and advice! Gzip from
	ports works as expected.

	For the record. In FreeBSD 10.0:
	* Gzip from the ports compiles by default with --rsyncable
	  (/usr/local/bin/gzip)
	* Gzip included in the system doesn't. (/usr/bin/gzip)

Cheers,
	-vlado
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Vladimir Botka