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authorEelco Dolstra <e.dolstra@tudelft.nl>2011-11-23T15·29+0000
committerEelco Dolstra <e.dolstra@tudelft.nl>2011-11-23T15·29+0000
commitd5ac78e0d6f21dc60bd4f4f3990a18dc2bc12c4c (patch)
tree95ae15938ef61e1f702a6176ed02a90d3922d57f /doc
parent5bbd693caedd5d50994938555b3a4b535875347e (diff)
* Add bzip2 and xz support to nix-copy-closure.
Diffstat (limited to 'doc')
-rw-r--r--doc/manual/nix-copy-closure.xml11
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/doc/manual/nix-copy-closure.xml b/doc/manual/nix-copy-closure.xml
index 584e713f14e0..3f2f12320f99 100644
--- a/doc/manual/nix-copy-closure.xml
+++ b/doc/manual/nix-copy-closure.xml
@@ -24,6 +24,8 @@
     </group>
     <arg><option>--sign</option></arg>
     <arg><option>--gzip</option></arg>
+    <arg><option>--bzip2</option></arg>
+    <arg><option>--xz</option></arg>
     <arg choice='plain'>
       <arg><replaceable>user@</replaceable></arg><replaceable>machine</replaceable>
     </arg>
@@ -96,10 +98,13 @@ those paths.  If this bothers you, use
 
   </varlistentry>
 
-  <varlistentry><term><option>--gzip</option></term>
+  <varlistentry><term><option>--gzip</option> / <option>--bzip2</option> / <option>--xz</option></term>
 
-    <listitem><para>Compress the dump of each path with
-    <command>gzip</command> before sending it.</para></listitem>
+    <listitem><para>Compress the dump of each path with respectively
+    <command>gzip</command>, <command>bzip2</command> or
+    <command>xz</command> before sending it.  The corresponding
+    decompression program must be installed on the target
+    machine.</para></listitem>
 
   </varlistentry>