From: Zac Medico <zmedico@gentoo.org>
Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2007 17:40:39 +0000 (-0000)
Subject: Add some additional notes about the behavior of FEATURES=assume-digests under
X-Git-Tag: v2.2_pre1~801
X-Git-Url: http://git.tremily.us/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=19811a04c5514d2911c386b1d4ea61f3ac516287;p=portage.git

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

svn path=/main/trunk/; revision=7777
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diff --git a/man/make.conf.5 b/man/make.conf.5
index 389dde230..8147ee913 100644
--- 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.
 .TP
 .B buildpkg
 Binary packages will be created for all packages that are merged.