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 repositories for Portage comes from the Portage package itself at. However settings in override values set.

will not create the file automatically. If it does not exist, it will default to the using the old SYNC variable which has been deprecated. If it does not exist make sure Portage is up to date and copy the rsync.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.

First Paragraph Correction
"The default configuration of repositories for Portage comes from the Portage package itself at /usr/share/portage/config/repos.conf. However settings in /etc/portage/repos.conf override values set /usr/share/portage/config/repos.conf."

Should read: "The default configuration of repositories for Portage comes from the Portage package itself at /usr/share/portage/config/repos.conf. However settings in /etc/portage/repos.conf FALLS BACK TO values set WITHIN /usr/share/portage/config/repos.conf." --Roger (talk) 16:32, 28 December 2015 (UTC)

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):