rsync - Apr 2002 - Incremental transfer to remote broken in rsync 2.5.4

Hi, all. I note that incremental transfer (i.e. using the rsync
algorithm) doesn't work when transferring to a remote machine. I get a
speedup of 1.0. Transferring from a remote machine does achieve the
speedup that the rsync algorithm yields. Even using the
--no-whole-file switch doesn't help:

% rsync -avP --no-whole-file file remotehost:
building file list ... 
1 files to consider
file
    1524957 100%  105.58kB/s    0:00:00
wrote 1525256 bytes  read 36 bytes  98405.94 bytes/sec
total size is 1524957  speedup is 1.00

this was after having added or deleted a single byte to/from the
file. Going in the other direction:
% rsync -avP remotehost:file .
receiving file list ... 
1 files to consider
file
    1524956 100%    9.76MB/s    0:00:00
wrote 13106 bytes  read 9187 bytes  8917.20 bytes/sec
total size is 1524956  speedup is 68.41

Much better. Please Cc: any replies to me, I'm not subscribed to the
list. This is with rsync v2.5.4.

				Regards,

					Richard....
Permanent: rgooch@atnf.csiro.au
Current:   rgooch@ras.ucalgary.ca

Hi Richard.

I think the problem you are experiencing is caused by a known bug in
2.5.4.  Could you please let me know if 2.5.5rc1 (or CVS HEAD) fixes
the problem?

I don't think there is a workaround in 2.5.4, short of backporting the
patch.  Sorry.

-- 
Martin