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authorZac Medico <zmedico@gentoo.org>2008-12-12 21:45:18 +0000
committerZac Medico <zmedico@gentoo.org>2008-12-12 21:45:18 +0000
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Fix --getbinpkgonly behavior so that binaries from the remote server are
preferred over local packages if they are not identical. Thanks to Lance Albertson <ramereth@g.o> for reporting. (trunk r12207) svn path=/main/branches/2.1.6/; revision=12238
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1 files changed, 2 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/man/emerge.1 b/man/emerge.1
index 1a28365ab..9224e014c 100644
--- a/man/emerge.1
+++ b/man/emerge.1
@@ -317,10 +317,8 @@ list. This option implies \fB\-k\fR. (Use \fB\-gK\fR for binary\-only
merging.)
.TP
.BR "\-\-getbinpkgonly " (\fB\-G\fR)
-This option is identical to \fB\-g\fR, as above, except it will not use ANY
-information from the local machine. All binaries will be downloaded from the
-remote server without consulting packages existing in the local packages
-directory.
+This option is identical to \fB\-g\fR, as above, except binaries from the
+remote server are preferred over local packages if they are not identical.
.TP
.BR "\-\-ignore-default-opts"
Causes \fIEMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS\fR (see \fBmake.conf\fR(5)) to be ignored.