Xi Shen <davidshe...@googlemail.com> writes: [...] >> > On 15/07/10 02:16, Xi Shen wrote: >> >> hi, >> >> >> >> i have multiple mirrors configured in GENTOO_MIRRORS, /etc/make.conf. >> >> i noticed that if the 1st mirror is down, emerge will continuously try >> >> the 1st mirror. i remember it should switch to the 2nd server after >> >> the try failed 3 times. how can i configure it to switch mirrors >> >> automatically? [...] > i tried the mirrorselect, and the generated GENTOO_MIRRORS is as follow: > > GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.localhost.net.ar/ > ftp://mirrors.localhost.net.ar/pub/mirrors/gentoo/";
Is this really a newline, or that's just your/my mail client wordwrapping it? > and this is my original value: > GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://mirrors.sohu.com/gentoo/ > http://mirrors.163.com/gentoo/"; > > what's the difference? except the url... If that was a newline, that's the only difference. If it is not, there is no difference. Do you, by any chance, have a custom FETCHCOMMAND? My /usr/share/portage/config/make.conf.example shows a default of 5 tries (-t 5), using wget. -- Nuno J. Silva gopher://sdf-eu.org/1/users/njsg
