Re: [gentoo-user] Re: emerge is not switching mirror when one is down

[Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com>]

On Thursday 15 July 2010 17:24:38 Nuno J. Silva wrote:
> Xi Shen <davidshen84@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?

It gets complicated. Depending on the font size I use and the wordwrap setting 
in my mailer, the line may or may not split at that point.

So I dug out his original mail to the list, viewed the source - it was 
unwrapped plaintext - and copy-pasted the line into somewhere I could view it 
with a hex editor. And it was a newline (0x10)

So some translation must have happened somewhere. Perhaps the original 
character was a non-breaking space or a para break and my X buffer decided to 
render it as a newline before pasting. Odd indeed.

The OP should simply edit his make.conf, remove whatever seperator he has 
there and make it a real space.

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