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Kellerkalt
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 Posted: Thu Apr 24, 2025 3:44 am Post subject: Portage picking poor mirror |
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[Administrator note: this post, and the first response, were originally attached to the solved topic rsync error: received SIGINT, SIGTERM [slvd]. It looks like this is a different problem, and solved topics get less attention, so I split this out. This post had no title, so I picked one. -Hu]
I keep defaulting to http://www.uls.co.za/ when trying to go to other mirrors but they time out. Why would portage choose South Africa over and over when I'm in North America? I'd like to avoid it if at all possible. |
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NeddySeagoon
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| Posted: Thu Apr 24, 2025 3:38 pm Post subject: |
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Kellerkalt,
There are two sorts of mirrors.
rsync mirrors, which go into /etc/portage/repos.conf/gentoo.conf
The default entry is | Code: | | sync-uri = rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage |
but being in Europe, I use
| Code: | | sync-uri = rsync://rsync.europe.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage |
Neither are actually mirrors, they are rotations. When you emerge --sync, these rotations pass you on to a real mirror. This spreads the load.
The default is actually the North American rotation.
You can find the status of individual rsync mirrors.
There is also a list of rotations and there members.
You may choose a single mirror if you wish but mirrors sometimes have problems, so a rotation is safer, unless it only has a single member of course.
That gets your ::gentoo repo updated.
Then there are source code mirrors that are listed in GENTOO_MIRRORS in make.conf.
Use to audition them all and put the fastest 5 into make.conf
Again, mirrors come and go, so using a single mirror is not a good idea,
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logrusx
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| Posted: Thu Apr 24, 2025 7:55 pm Post subject: Re: Portage picking poor mirror |
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| Kellerkalt wrote: |
I keep defaulting to http://www.uls.co.za/ when trying to go to other mirrors but they time out. Why would portage choose South Africa over and over when I'm in North America? I'd like to avoid it if at all possible. |
You're not the first user to have that problem and I personally have never had such a problem as I tend to find a good performing mirror and stick with it.
I recommend doing the same.
Best Regards,
Georgi |
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