Add some additional notes about the behavior of FEATURES=assume-digests under

various conditions.

svn path=/main/trunk/; revision=7777

diff --git a/man/make.conf.5 b/man/make.conf.5
index 389dde2302897399734e335efacb16ebe50f0c1a..8147ee913184c585272736c0c59b5f4c244f2fcf 100644 (file)
--- a/man/make.conf.5
+++ b/man/make.conf.5
@@ -135,7 +135,11 @@ an incremental variable.
 When commiting work to cvs with \fBrepoman\fR(1), assume that all existing 
 SRC_URI digests are correct.  This feature also affects digest generation via
 \fBebuild\fR(1) and \fBemerge\fR(1) (emerge generates digests only when the
-\fIdigest\fR feature is enabled).
+\fIdigest\fR feature is enabled). Existing digests for files that do not exist
+in ${DISTDIR} will be automatically assumed even when \fIassume\-digests\fR is
+not enabled. If a file exists in ${DISTDIR} but it's size does not match the
+existing digest, the digest will be regenerated regardless of the whether or
+not \fIassume\-digests\fR is enabled.
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 .B buildpkg
 Binary packages will be created for all packages that are merged.