Picking a specific portage mirror

illogical_simby · n00b Joined: 12 Feb 2003 Posts: 1 Location: Australia

Hi all,
This may seem like a stupid question, and may have a REALLY obvious solution. My issue is, my ISP (Telstra in Australia) caps my download limits - so I need to pick a mirror (planetmirror.com) that is uncapped. Is there anyway in the portage configuration file (/etc/make.conf) that I can put which mirror FTP/HTTP site to use ALL the time?

I've tried the GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://123:123@planetmirror.com" (I need to login for it to work) - but when I run any portage commands it still looks for the latest list of mirrors and ignores my entry.

Any help on this will be appreciated, as I'm dying to install 1.4rc2! Thanks all!

cyfred · Retired Dev Joined: 23 Aug 2002 Posts: 596

Well im on the 3G ADSL plan and havnt ever broken the cap, albeit for a first install your will have a larger download -- look in the file /etc/make.globals -- you will actually see where the mirrors are set, just add a the planetmirror address to that.

rac · Posted: Wed Feb 12, 2003 7:19 pm Post subject:

Please don't edit make.globals. Define GENTOO_MIRRORS in /etc/make.conf instead, using the same syntax as make.globals.
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cyfred · Retired Dev Joined: 23 Aug 2002 Posts: 596

needlern1 · Posted: Sat Feb 15, 2003 1:05 pm Post subject:

During my installation of 1.4-rc1, while I was chrooted in /mnt/gentoo, I did not replace my /etc/make.conf or globals files. Before exiting I ran 'etc-update' and had those two files showing (IIRC). I think I just skipped over them during my configuring process.

Now in my successfully installed system my /etc/make.conf had two GENTOO_MIRRORS entries for ftp sites (which I also used while building the system). The first, gatech worked wonderfully while building. Now it has turned to stone! So, I want to use the second listing, oregonstate. After several attempts to emerge kde stalled out on the connection to gatech I removed the gatech listing all together from my /etc/make.conf file, leaving just the oregonstate site.

However, when I try to emerge something, it is still trying to work from the gatech site. My /etc/make.globals still shows the original ibiblio.org site.

How should I persue correcting this? TIA, Bill

xenon · Guru Joined: 25 Dec 2002 Posts: 432 Location: Europe

There's a nice thingie called mirrorselect that does the job in a simple menu-driven way. Emerge it and give it a try if you don't want to mess with long URLs.

needlern1 · Posted: Sun Feb 16, 2003 8:30 pm Post subject:

Thanks xenon. I did that during the installation process. WOW. EURIKA. I had forgotten about it. I just went to my linux box, entered the 'mirrorselect' command deleted the gatech check mark, which left the oregonstate site. I'm back in business. Thanks to all for your help. Bill