svn commit: r381655 - head/Mk

[Bryan Drewery]

Author: bdrewery
Date: Thu Mar 19 18:16:52 2015
New Revision: 381655
URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/ports/381655
QAT: https://qat.redports.org/buildarchive/r381655/

Log:
  Add a hint on how to deal with github download failures.
  
  PR:		194898

Modified:
  head/Mk/bsd.sites.mk

Modified: head/Mk/bsd.sites.mk
==============================================================================
--- head/Mk/bsd.sites.mk	Thu Mar 19 18:16:11 2015	(r381654)
+++ head/Mk/bsd.sites.mk	Thu Mar 19 18:16:52 2015	(r381655)
@@ -535,6 +535,8 @@ IGNORE?=	Using master as GH_TAGNAME is i
 		Must use a tag or commit hash so the upstream does \
 		not "reroll" as soon as the branch is updated
 .  endif
+# We are cheating and using backend URLS for Github here. See ports/194898
+# comment #15 for explanation as to why and how to deal with it if it breaks.
 MASTER_SITE_GITHUB+=		https://codeload.github.com/%SUBDIR%
 MASTER_SITE_GITHUB_CLOUD+=	http://cloud.github.com/downloads/%SUBDIR%
 MASTER_SITE_GITHUB_LEGACY+=	https://codeload.github.com/%SUBDIR%