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

[nunojsilva@ist.utl.pt (Nuno J. Silva)]

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?

> 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.

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