Mirrorselect
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This tool helps you find the fastest mirror for you. Very useful for fetching lots of stuff when installing or upgrading Gentoo.
The tool is located in the app-portage/mirrorselect package. It's included in the livecd's. To install it on your system:
emerge app-portage/mirrorselect
During installation use:
mirrorselect -i -o >> /mnt/gentoo/etc/make.conf
to select mirror or
mirrorselect -i -r -o >> /mnt/gentoo/etc/make.conf
to select rsync-mirror
If you would like to find the fastest available servers use:
mirrorselect -s3 -b10 -o -D >> /etc/make.conf
This command will download a 100K chunk from each server in the servers list and then choose 3 fastest, writing them to make.conf
If you use http-replicator use this to download only http mirrors:
mirrorselect -s3 -b10 -o -D -H >> /etc/make.conf
