On 10/23/24 12:15 AM, Grant Edwards wrote: > Huh. I never knew there was a default (reliable) mirror. The handbook > doesn't mention that. It states > > In order to download source code quickly it is recommended to > select a fast, geographically close mirror. Portage will look in > the make.conf file for the GENTOO_MIRRORS variable and use the > mirrors listed therein. > > There's no mention that there's a default, and my reading of that > paragraph is that you are required to have GENTOO_MIRRORS set. [Yes, > the section is labelled "optional", but it doesn't read like it's > optional.]
That is correct -- it is optional because the default isn't really guaranteed to be fast (especially if *everyone* uses it and no one uses the other mirrors). > In the future, I'll leave GENTOO_MIRRORS unset, because it's a PITA to > have to keep fixing it when a mirror stops working or starts > responding so slowly. I suppose you could also just have a cron job that runs mirrorselect once a week. It's unlikely a mirror will die quite that fast -- usually they will start to become slow and unreliable first -- and regularly refreshing the urls means that when a mirror doesn't disappear but does change its directory structure, you end up with the preferred structure. But of course the default mirror can work fine as well (albeit often a bit slowly). -- Eli Schwartz
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