Re: Gentoo: To mirror or not to mirror?

[John Bell <john.bell@borg-hive.net>]

Absolutely.


On Sun, 2003-02-23 at 10:37, mike808@users.sourceforge.net wrote:
> Steve, et al.
> 
> Is anyone else interested in mirroring Gentoo on the FTP site?
> It seems like whenever I emerge something, I'm pulling from a server in 
> denmark or italy.

Mike, set your make.conf (GENTOO_MIRRORS="sitex sitey sitez") to use a
closer mirror if you want to avoid the overseas lag.  

> 
> http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/rsync.xml
> 
> Also, it might be nice to have some sort of "size of mirrors" in the README.
> Just wondering how much of that 500GB we're actually using.
> 
> Mike808/
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