[gentoo-user] Re: What's up with subversion 1.14.3?

[Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwards@gmail.com>]

On 2024-10-23, Eli Schwartz <eschwartz@gentoo.org> wrote:
> On 10/22/24 11:20 PM, Grant Edwards wrote:
>
>> Yep. My bad.  Both of the mirrors I had configured had stopped
>> working, and I didn't notice that amongst the other 404 errors. It
>> seems like I regularly have to pick a new mirror on at least one of my
>> Gentoo installs.
>> 
>> Is there some automated way to deal with that?
>
> Aside for the default (distfiles.gentoo.org, run by Gentoo, presumed
> extremely reliable uptime for that reason)...

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.]

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.

> https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/GENTOO_MIRRORS

I never looked in the Wiki because I thought the Handbook seemed clear
to me.

--
Grant