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From: Emanuel Haupt <ehaupt@FreeBSD.org>
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RW <rwmaillists@googlemail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 22 Jul 2010 12:17:31 +0200
> Emanuel Haupt <ehaupt@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