Mirrorselect

The program provides a nice interface to set the GENTOO_MIRRORS variable and the Gentoo rsync mirror.

Emerge
Install :

Select the Gentoo source mirror(s)
A dialog will appear where the available mirrors can be selected. On save will be backed up and written.
 * Find Gentoo source mirrors (and set or update the GENTOO_MIRRORS variable):


 * This example selects source mirrors only from country USA and adds a new GENTOO_MIRRORS= line to :


 * 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:

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.