MASTER_SITE defined by google search result

RW rwmaillists at googlemail.com
Thu Jul 22 17:35:42 UTC 2010


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. 


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