This is redundant with bug 15445 : http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15445 but this documentation correction is announced to be corrected on 15-02-2003, the status of 15445 is NEW and inside some of 23 mirrorselect related bugs, the maintener, responsible for mirrorselect (and documentation ??), seems to change. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- When I try to select a mirror automatically: # mirrorselect -a -s4 -o >> /mnt/gentoo/etc/make.conf This instruction failed during my first building of gentoo on a virgin system. This building followed scenario stage-1. At last, I understood the mirrorselect had to be emerged previously to any mirrorselect usage after the initial bootstrap. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Start on a virgin system 2.Boot on LiveCD gentoo-basic-1.4-20030806.iso 3.Apply scenario1 procedure 4.Try mirrorselect Actual Results: failed command and very low dowload band width usage Expected Results: multiple mirror selection mirrorselect is a very usefull to download at full rate on a xDSL connection
Created attachment 19421 [details, diff] Patch with a bit more info for mirrorselect Mirrorselect doesn't need to be emerged as it is used before the chroot. Some LiveCDs contain mirrorselect, some don't. Some other installation media have it (esp. some existing gentoo installations), but most don't. This patch adds a bit more information that mirrorselect doesn't always exist and that you can safely ignore the section then. If a docdev can review this patch?
patch looks good
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