mirrorselect

Section: Misc. Reference Manual Pages (8)
Updated: 2.2.2-r2
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NAME

mirrorselect - A tool which helps to select rsync and distfiles mirrors for Gentoo

SYNTAX

mirrorselect [options]

OPTIONS

-h, --help: Print a usage summary and exit.
--version: Show program's version number and exit.

Main modes

-a, --all: This will present a list of all filtered search results to make it possible to select mirrors you wish to use. For the -r, --rsync option, it will select the rotation server only. As multiple rsync URL's are not supported.
-D, --deep: Deep mode. This is used to give a more accurate speed test. It will download a 100k file from each server. Because of this you should only use this option if you have a good connection.
-i, --interactive: Interactive Mode, this will present a list to make it possible to select mirrors you wish to use.

Server type selection (choose at most one)

-c COUNTRY , --country COUNTRY: Only use mirrors from the specified country. NOTE: Names with a space must be quoted
eg.: -c 'South Korea'
-F, --ftp: ftp only mode. Will not consider hosts of other types.
-H, --http: http only mode. Will not consider hosts of other types.
-r, --rsync: rsync mode. Allows you to interactively select your rsync mirror.
Requires -i to be used.
-R REGION , --region REGION: Only use mirrors from the specified region. NOTE: Names with a space must be quoted.
eg.: -R 'North America'
-4, --ipv4: only use IPv4.
-6, --ipv6: only use IPv6.

Other options

-b BLOCKSIZE , --blocksize BLOCKSIZE: This is to be used in automatic mode and will split the hosts into blocks of BLOCKSIZE for use with netselect. This is required for certain routers which block 40+ requests at any given time. Recommended parameters to pass are: -s 3 -b 10
-d VERBOSITY , --debug VERBOSITY: Debug mode.
-f FILE , --file FILE: An alternate file to download for deep testing. Please choose the file carefully as to not abuse the system by selecting an overly large size file. You must also use the -m, --md5 option.
-m MD5 , --md5 MD5: An alternate file md5sum value used to compare the downloaded file against for deep testing.
-o, --output: Output Only Mode, this is especially useful when being used during installation, to redirect output to a file other than /etc/portage/make.conf.
-P PROXY , --proxy PROXY: Proxy server to use if not the default proxy in the environment.
-q, --quiet: Quiet mode.
-s SERVERS , -servers SERVERS: Specify Number of servers for Automatic Mode to select. this is only valid for download mirrors. If this is not specified, a default of 1 is used.
-t TIMEOUT , -timeout TIMEOUT: Timeout for deep mode. Defaults to 10 seconds.

EXAMPLES

automatic:

Autoselect the 5 best mirrors and save results in /etc/portage/make.conf, a backup will be created.

# mirrorselect -s5

Autoselect the 3 best mirrors, use a BLOCKSIZE of 10 and append the output to /etc/portage/make.conf.

# mirrorselect -s3 -b10 -o >> /etc/portage/make.conf

Autoselect the 4 best mirrors, it also loads a 100k file from each mirror. The result will be written to /etc/portage/make.conf, a backup will be created.

# mirrorselect -D -s4

interactive: