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Add a note about what cannot go into MASTER_SITES.

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Reviewed by:	bcr, wblock, erwin, bdrewery, ak
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Mathieu Arnold 2015-01-07 11:09:00 +00:00
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closest master site and fetching from there; having multiple
sites will go a long way towards helping this effort.</para>
<important>
<para><varname>MASTER_SITES</varname> must not be blank. It
must point to the actual site hosting the distribution
files. It cannot point to web archives, or the &os;
distribution files cache sites. The only exception to this
rule is ports that do not have any distribution files. For
example, meta-ports do not have any distribution files, so
<varname>MASTER_SITES</varname> does not need to be
set.</para>
</important>
<para>If the original tarball is part of one of the popular
archives such as SourceForge, GNU, or Perl CPAN, it may be
possible refer to those sites in an easy compact form using