emerge force mirror?

Zarathustra[H] · Posted: Sat Jan 25, 2003 7:18 pm Post subject: emerge force mirror?

Hi!

As I understand it, when I run emerge, it randomly selects on of the mirrors to download from.

I happen to be on the same LAN as a portage mirror (libre.oit.umass.edu) and I get full 10mbit downloads from this mirror. (this mirror is blocked from off-lan access)

In other words, it dowsn't make sense for me to download from any other mirror. Is there any way I can force emerge to use this mirror?

Thanks,
Matt
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rac · Posted: Sat Jan 25, 2003 7:53 pm Post subject:

There are two sets of mirrors, and I'm not sure which you're talking about. rsync mirrors are used when you "emerge sync": you can set those by defining SYNC in make.conf. Source mirrors are used when you download sources: those can be set by defining GENTOO_MIRRORS in make.conf.
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Zarathustra[H] · Posted: Sat Jan 25, 2003 8:04 pm Post subject:

rac · Posted: Sat Jan 25, 2003 9:26 pm Post subject:

Look at make.globals for samples.
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Zarathustra[H] · Posted: Mon Jan 27, 2003 5:30 am Post subject:

Zarathustra[H] · Posted: Mon Jan 27, 2003 5:33 am Post subject:

actually, I found that the rsync on that server is under /gentoo/rsync. I tried that instead, but I still get the error.

Any suggestions?

Thanks,
Matt
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rac · Posted: Mon Jan 27, 2003 6:50 am Post subject:

Protocol should probably be "rsync://", not "ftp://".
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