the mirror used to download everything is ftp.linux.kiev.ua (Romania). I am in the US. How do I change the mirror to a server in the US? I’ve tried declaring
SYNC=“rsync://mirror.umoss.org/calculate”
and using mirrorselect to choose mirrors but no matter how or where I specify the mirrors it always uses ftp.linux.kiev.ua
Repositories binary packages are only three in Russia, Ukraine and Kazakhstan. We can not use other mirrors as for binary mirror we need access to perform the update. Upgrading packages occurs simultaneously with the update portage. The path to the mirror can be changed in the PORTAGE_BINHOST variable in fale /etc/make.conf.
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* System configuring for portage package by Calculate Utilities
* Calculate Utilities have changed files:
* /usr/lib/portage/pym/_emerge/depgraph.py
>>> Auto-cleaning packages...
>>> No outdated packages were found on your system.
* GNU info directory index is up-to-date.
Each distribution CL has three profiles - normal, binary and development (see ‘eselect profile list’). Binary profile is used by default. When using binary profile during the upgrade system you are using pre-compiled packages. Binary package is not much, the rest are compiled from source code. All packages are assembled with USE-flags distribution.
To work with the binary profile, we performed a series of steps, moving Portage to Git and creating several mirrors with centralized update. The update occurs at the same time - the binary packages, Portage and Calculate overlay.
You can not use the pre-compiled binary packages, compiling packages during the upgrade. In this case, you use only the mirror described in variable GENTOO_MIRRORS.
You can switch the profile by running eselect profile set X, where X - the profile number.
It was the binhost. I was unaware of the fact that the binaries are pulled from a specific server that is different than for ebuilds. Thanks guys!
I was using cl-builder to create my own flash install. I had 50 failed packages after an emerge -e world. I changed the binhost in make.conf and everything is working fine. Thanks!