Bug 20343

Summary:	Addition of the mirrorselect tool to the stage tarballs
Product:	Gentoo Release Media	Reporter:	Alexander Winston <alexander.winston>
Component:	Everything	Assignee:	Gentoo Release Team <releng>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	enhancement	CC:	johnm
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Alexander Winston 2003-05-02 14:44:49 UTC

I feel that it would be an excellent addition to the stages and it would
certainly ease those hefty installs by speeding up downloads.

Comment 1 David Cozatt 2003-05-02 15:42:30 UTC

Just from browsing the bugs mind you: (do a search for mirrorselect) 
 There are/were problems with livecd environment and mirrorselect -i 
something to do with the way dialog and ncurses handle pipes if I read it right. 
This is being worked on. May be added later?  
 
bus_drivr

Comment 2 Bob Johnson (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2003-05-02 16:06:34 UTC

stage suggestion, would do no good on livecd itself

Comment 3 Jon Portnoy (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2003-05-09 10:44:19 UTC

Yes, we definitely need to have this in the 1.4 stages. John is now maintaining it and should have it in a very usable state soon.

Comment 4 John Mylchreest (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2003-05-09 13:54:47 UTC

Added to portage unstable.
please merge mirrorselect-0.3 and test.
thanks :)

Comment 5 Alexander Winston 2003-05-09 15:25:17 UTC

Sounds great =)

By the way, did I add this to the right section? I'm pretty new to the whole Bugzilla process and I thought the LiveCD area was the appropriate section.. Please correct me if I'm wrong.

Thanks,
    Alexander

Comment 6 John Mylchreest (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2003-05-11 15:51:29 UTC

:) id call this the most appropriate section also :)

Comment 7 John Mylchreest (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2003-10-01 12:12:48 UTC

lost resolutions, re-closing