rattus src # grep -n compress `which emerge`
2425:                   "--compress",     # Compress the data
transmitted
rattus src #

Its in the arguments passed to rsync in the emerge script which is where
I got it from.  If emerge uses it ...

BillK


On Wed, 2005-09-07 at 17:28 +0200, Matthias Bethke wrote:
> Hi W.Kenworthy,
> on Wednesday, 2005-09-07 at 14:48:08, you wrote:
> > or to reduce bandwidth try this as the crontab command:
> > 
> > rsync --recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress
>                                                          ^^^^^^^^^^
> IIRC you're not supposed to do this as it generates too much load on the
> gentoo mirrors. Might depend on the individual server's policy but I
> think that's the general rule.
> 
> regards
>       Matthias
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