For those that are not wanting to run the CVS version of rsync (e.g. for
production use) but are being affected by the rsync failure when compression
is enabled, here is the patch that ended up going into CVS to fix this:
http://www.blorf.net/rsync-compress-fix.patch
This should apply fine to either 2.5.5 or 2.5.6.
..wayne..