Bug #220533 - Document FEATURES="skiprocheck". (trunk r10314)

svn path=/main/branches/2.1.2/; revision=10315

diff --git a/man/make.conf.5 b/man/make.conf.5
index df4e08c92815f841cc79ffdf25a2d359ea17df1a..202fcdd86404ca3f0004cf6a72c039be21ab2209 100644 (file)
--- a/man/make.conf.5
+++ b/man/make.conf.5
@@ -281,6 +281,15 @@ See also \fIsuidctl\fR below.
 When commiting work to cvs with \fBrepoman\fR(1), sign the Manifest with 
 a GPG key.  Read about the \fIPORTAGE_GPG_KEY\fR variable in \fBmake.conf\fR(5).
 .TP
+.B skiprocheck
+Skip write access checks on \fBDISTDIR\fR when fetching files. This is
+useful when \fBFETCHCOMMAND\fR and \fBRESUMECOMMAND\fR are used to
+forward fetch requests to a server that exposes \fBDISTDIR\fR as
+a read-only NFS share. A read-only \fBDISTDIR\fR is not compatible with the
+\fIdistlocks\fR, so it is recommended to also add "-distlocks" to
+\fBFEATURES\fR in order to avoid warning messages that are triggered by this
+incompatibility.
+.TP
 .B splitdebug
 Prior to stripping ELF etdyn and etexec files, the debugging info is 
 stored for later use by various debuggers.  This feature is disabled by