From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 26035 invoked by uid 1002); 10 Aug 2003 22:31:29 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gentoo-dev-help@gentoo.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Received: (qmail 11279 invoked from network); 10 Aug 2003 22:31:28 -0000 From: "Ralph F. De Witt" To: Corey Shields , gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Date: Sun, 10 Aug 2003 15:32:43 +0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.2 References: <200308101159.16879.ralphdewitt@charter.net> <20030810195238.GA7761@cerberus.oppresses.us> <1060550943.1630.172.camel@localhost> In-Reply-To: <1060550943.1630.172.camel@localhost> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200308101532.43218.ralphdewitt@charter.net> Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Why the change to mirrors.twobit.net for downloading stuff. X-Archives-Salt: 17a0a931-914a-4d87-a73e-29eab1f6a6a6 X-Archives-Hash: e1b50cee14203ddb826a8d9425ff2b0c On Sunday 10 August 2003 09:29 pm, Corey Shields wrote: > On Sun, 2003-08-10 at 14:52, Jon Portnoy wrote: > > > IIRC, the new installation manual includes a step to run mirrorselect. > > > As I see it, either they set towbit.net as default to encourage people > > > to use mirrorselect, or perhaps you ran mirrorselect and it > > > (foolishly?) chose towbit.net as the "best" mirror. > > > > At one point (1.4rc3?) twobit was set as the default mirror by accident. > > Any recent stage shouldn't have that problem... > > There is a somewhat new round robin DNS set for distfiles. Set the > first choice in your GENTOO_SOURCES to http://distfiles.gentoo.org/ > > The mirrors in this set are all high bandwidth mirrors. Any problems > please open up a bug to mirror-admin > > Cheers! Corey: One question is GENTOO_SOURCES located in /etc/make.conf? If it is then it is not in the version that came with 1.4rc3 this one looks like the bottom half of the last section is missing compared to others I have seen. If it is not complete how do I get a more recent one? Thanks for your help. -- Ralph -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list