diff --git a/xbps-src/common/fetch_sites.sh b/xbps-src/common/fetch_sites.sh
index 9ba5b6e73e..e4aa2b8f38 100644
--- a/xbps-src/common/fetch_sites.sh
+++ b/xbps-src/common/fetch_sites.sh
@@ -11,3 +11,4 @@ GNOME_SITE="http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources"
 KERNEL_SITE="http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux"
 CPAN_SITE="http://cpan.perl.org/modules/by-module"
 MOZILLA_SITE="ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org"
+GNU_SITE="http://mirrors.kernel.org/gnu"