diff --git a/packages/x11/other/fontconfig/meta b/packages/x11/other/fontconfig/meta
index 7b05b9927d..6e2e1f17fd 100644
--- a/packages/x11/other/fontconfig/meta
+++ b/packages/x11/other/fontconfig/meta
@@ -4,7 +4,8 @@ PKG_REV="1"
 PKG_ARCH="any"
 PKG_LICENSE="OSS"
 PKG_SITE="http://www.fontconfig.org"
-PKG_URL="http://fontconfig.org/release/$PKG_NAME-$PKG_VERSION.tar.gz"
+#PKG_URL="http://fontconfig.org/release/$PKG_NAME-$PKG_VERSION.tar.gz"
+PKG_URL="http://cgit.freedesktop.org/fontconfig/snapshot/$PKG_NAME-$PKG_VERSION.tar.gz"
 PKG_DEPENDS="freetype libxml2 zlib"
 PKG_BUILD_DEPENDS="toolchain util-macros freetype libxml2 zlib"
 PKG_PRIORITY="optional"