Thanks. It's not just me then who's having problems with mirrorselect. I checked bugzilla and it had a bug on another issue so before I filed one I wanted to check. It appears the author is aware of it then.
> On Saturday, March 15, 2003, at 06:46 am, Brett I. Holcomb wrote: > > I started with stage 1, emerged through stage 3 and then merged > > mirrorselect. > > I did mirrorselect -i and got errors about regular expression and > > then found > > my make.conf had Gentomirrors= followed by a bunch of ascii codes that > > are > > used to control the console colors, etc. There was no mirrors listed. > > > > Has anyone else had problems with it? > > I had the same problem - the developer who does Mirrorselect is aware of > the issue. Reportedly it is only a problem when run from the LiveCD. > > To workaround, delete those ASCII codes from the end of your make.conf & > add the Mirrors in manually. You should find something like the below > suitable: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] stroller $ grep MIRROR /etc/make.conf > # Portage uses GENTOO_MIRRORS to specify mirrors to use for source > retrieval. #GENTOO_MIRRORS="<your_mirror_here> > http://gentoo.oregonstate.edu/ > http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo"; > GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://www.mirror.ac.uk/sites/www.ibiblio.org/gentoo/ > http://mirrors.sunsite.dk/gentoo/ http://gentoo.linux.no/ > http://ftp.tu-clausthal.de/pub/linux/gentoo/ > http://ftp.snt.utwente.nl/pub/os/linux/gentoo/ > ftp://ftp.snt.utwente.nl/pub/os/linux/gentoo/ > ftp://ftp.rez-gif.supelec.fr/pub/Linux/distrib/gentoo/ > http://gentoo.oregonstate.edu/ > http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo"; > [EMAIL PROTECTED] stroller $ > > I tend to keep the first line handy for uncommenting, in case the European > mirrors are slow in propagating updates. > > HTH, > > Stroller. -- Brett I. Holcomb AKA Grunt <>< -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
