MASTER_SITE defined by google search result

[Emanuel Haupt]

RW <rwmaillists at googlemail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 22 Jul 2010 12:17:31 +0200
> Emanuel Haupt <ehaupt at FreeBSD.org> wrote:
> 
> > Usually when I find that a port can't fetch the according distfile I
> > simply google for the distfile with the following search string
> > (e.g. for rsync):
> > 
> > 	intitle:"index of" rsync-3.0.7.tar.gz
> > 
> > This approach almost always delivers plenty of results. I then
> > manually download one of the results into my DISTDIR and restart the
> > normal build process 
> 
> How often do you actually do this? Whenever I have a problem with a
> distfile it's normally a rerolled file that's been propagated to all
> mirrors. 

Unfortunately, recently much more often. Especially with non default
OPTIONS that pull in additional patches/distfiles.

Emanuel