Weird Gentoo Portage Errors

Joshua Bergland kclug at mrj412.com
Sat May 24 06:59:01 CDT 2003


James Colannino wrote:

> Oregonstate.edu seems to house piles upon piles of corrupted files.  
> Downloading from another mirror solved my problem.  I have another 
> question now.  I've been using wget to manually download the files as 
> emerge asks for them, and I know there's gotta be a way that I can 
> specify an alternate server so that emerge can download somewhere else 
> instead.  So how would I do this?  Anyone know? :) 

There is a line in your /etc/make.conf that allows you to specifty a 
mirror ... Just uncomment the line and follow the example, putting your 
preferred mirror first in the list.

Josh




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