How do you change mirror?

jkcunningham · Posted: Fri May 30, 2003 12:03 am Post subject: How do you change mirror?

I noticed the request to shift off of the oregon state mirror and haven't been able to figure out yet how to change mirror on an existing installation. Where is the mirror's URL kept?

-Jeff

scott_ell · Posted: Fri May 30, 2003 12:06 am Post subject:

in /etc/make.conf:

GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://ftp.gtlib.cc.gatech.edu/pub/gentoo
ftp://ftp.oregonstate.edu/pub/gentoo
http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo"

wilburpan · l33t Joined: 21 Jan 2003 Posts: 977

Even better:

KingDaveRa · n00b Joined: 31 May 2003 Posts: 34 Location: Bucks, UK

Changing mirrors really does help a hell of a lot with emerging. It seems most people must be just leaving their configs to go to the oregon state mirror as it is just so slow. I was getting about 60kb/s max at work (8mb leased line) and 10kb/s at home (512k ADSL). I switched to mirror.ac.uk and its stomping along at 800kb/s plus at work and 60kb/s at home. Certainly an improvement!

I think the mirrors settings should be in the docs as 'you must change this to your local', during the install.

pjp · Posted: Sun Jun 01, 2003 12:52 am Post subject:

Moved from Installing Gentoo.
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