Mirrorselect

The program provides a nice interface to select Gentoo rsync mirror and Gentoo source mirrors.

Emerge
Install :

Select the Gentoo rsync mirror
The default configuration of the Gentoo repository comes from and is located at. However settings in override it.

will not create the file automatically. If that file does not exist, will default to using the old  SYNC variable which has been deprecated. In order to avoid this make sure Portage is up to date and copy the repos.conf file from Portage's (library) location to the  (configuration) location:

Then proceed with using the utility.


 * Find a Gentoo rsync mirror (make sure to use ):



Just navigate to the mirrors of choice and press to select one (or more) mirrors.

Select the Gentoo source mirror(s)

 * Find Gentoo source mirrors (set GENTOO_MIRRORS variable):




 * Find 3 fastest servers by downloading 100K from each. This command will use all available mirrors in the list:



Options
Please consider using one of these additional options to limit the available mirrors in the list it tests.

Server type selection (choose at most one):