MASTER_SITE defined by google search result

[Shaun Amott]

On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 12:17:31PM +0200, Emanuel Haupt 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 which then automatically takes care of the integrity
> (checksum, size) of the distfile(s).
> 
> I thought, why not automate this and I came up with a simple perl
> script (requires www/p5-Google-Search):
> 
> http://people.freebsd.org/~ehaupt/distfile-search/distfile-search
> 

Very cool and wonderfully efficient! One possible enhancement might be
to also (conditionally?) search for the size from distinfo; this is
particularly useful when dealing with distfiles which lack a version
number.

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