GENTOO MIRRORS

The GENTOO_MIRRORS variable is set in

and can be overwritten with an entry in /etc/portage/make.conf.

is the tool for managing such entry. That entry can hold a space-delimited list of Gentoo Source Mirrors to check before downloading from the URL defined in an ebuild or downloading a snapshot (webrsync).

Available URLs can be found on Gentoo Source Mirrors.

Choosing a fast mirror
See the Select the Gentoo source mirror(s) section of the Mirrorselect article.

External resources

 * Gentoo Source Mirrors