mirrorselect
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mirrorselect
Section: Misc. Reference Manual Pages (8)Updated: 2.1.0
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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
- -4, --ipv4
- only use IPv4.
- -6, --ipv6
- only use IPv6.
- -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)
- -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.
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, --debug
- Debug mode.
- -o, --output
- Output Only Mode, this is especially useful when being used during installation, to redirect output to a file other than /etc/make.conf
- -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/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/make.conf.
# mirrorselect -s3 -b10 -o >> /etc/make.conf
Autoselect the 4 best mirrors, it also loads a 100k file from each mirror. The result will be written to /etc/make.conf, a backup will be created.
# mirrorselect -D -s4
-
Start mirrorselect in interactive mode to select rsync mirrors.
# mirrorselect -i -r
AUTHORS
Colin Kingsley <tercel@gentoo.org>
Zac Medico <zmedico@gentoo.org>
Sebastian Pipping <sebastian@pipping.org>
Christian Ruppert <idl0r@gentoo.org>
BUGS
Please report any bugs to http://bugs.gentoo.org
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