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mrhodes
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 Posted: Fri Jan 31, 2003 12:36 pm Post subject: How do I change my download mirror? |
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Hello,
I am installing gentoo again, and this time
I have noticed that the speed of the ibiblio.org site has dropped to
unacceptable levels. It's taking a lot more time to download the files then it is taking to
actually compile them!
I'm just not sure what file I change, or what mirrors I can change to
can anyone help?
Thanks,
Mike |
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slartibartfasz
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Location: Vienna, Austria
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| Posted: Fri Jan 31, 2003 1:36 pm Post subject: |
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| Code: | FETCHCOMMAND='/usr/bin/proz --no-getch -s ${URI} -P ${DISTDIR}'
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# Portage uses GENTOO_MIRRORS to specify mirrors to use for source retrieval.
# The list is a space seperated list which is read left to right. If you use
# another mirror we highly recommend leaving the default mirror at the end of
# the list so that portage will fall back to it if the files cannot be found
# on your specified mirror.
#GENTOO_MIRRORS="<your_mirror_here> http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo"
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change these settings in your make.conf.... u will need to emerge prozilla for this to work...
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Nightweaver
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| Posted: Fri Jan 31, 2003 2:20 pm Post subject: |
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| Code: | #GENTOO_MIRRORS="<your_mirror_here> http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo"
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(Borrowed from the above post)
Just uncomment that line and add another mirror to the front there (Instead of <your_mirror_here> of course). There's a nice big list on the main gentoo page, or you can look at the ibiblio mirrorlist.
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mrpsock33
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| Posted: Sat Feb 01, 2003 2:07 am Post subject: |
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please forgive me if this seems obvious to some, but I was a little unclear myself on how to edit this file:
| Code: | | nano -w /etc/make.conf |
Scroll down to the bottom. My make.conf file didn't have the GENTOO_MIRRORS entry for some reason, so I just added it exactly like above. To make sure I did it right I did an 'emerge' on a small application first before doing the 'emerge -u world' thing. Works great.
The ibiblio mirror really sucks, 1.2Kbs per second for me! |
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David_Escott
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| Posted: Sat Feb 01, 2003 4:34 am Post subject: |
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| Yes more recently this has been moved out of make.conf and into make.globals (although I am not sure why). So just add the line wherever you want will be fine. As to the ibiblio problems these seem very temporary. Last few weeks I have been getting 100+kbps but the last two days I haven't even been able to log on. Perhaps somekind of hardware failure (it couldn't be software ;) ) over there has caused problems I haven't checked their website. |
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