diff --git a/doc/manual.txt b/doc/manual.txt
index 52592da0087..80319aa9141 100644
--- a/doc/manual.txt
+++ b/doc/manual.txt
@@ -282,9 +282,12 @@ small number of packages must set this property.
 
 *distfiles*::
  The full URL to the `upstream` source distribution files. Multiple files
-can be separated by blanks. The files must end in `.tar.lzma`, `.tar.xz`,
+can be separated by whitespaces. The files must end in `.tar.lzma`, `.tar.xz`,
 `.txz`, `.tar.bz2`, `.tbz`, `.tar.gz`, `.tgz`, `.gz`, `.bz2`, `.tar` or
-`.zip`. Example `distfiles="http://foo.org/foo-1.0.tar.gz"`
+`.zip`. To define a target filename, append `>filename` to the URL.
+Example:
+	distfiles="http://foo.org/foo-1.0.tar.gz
+		http://foo.org/bar-1.0.tar.gz>bar.tar.gz"`
 
 *checksum*::
  The `sha256` digests matching `${distfiles}`. Multiple files can be