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#22,022 opened on Apr 12, 2026

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Description

Command description

mirrorselect

Selects GENTOO_MIRRORS and the Gentoo rsync mirror with a TUI. More information: https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Mirrorselect

  • Opens up an interface for mirror selection: sudo mirrorselect -i

  • Opens up an interface of the specified country for mirror selection: sudo mirrorselect -i -c "United States (USA)"

  • Selects the 3 fastest servers by download speed (may take a while): mirrorselect -s3 -b10 -D

  • Opens up an interface to choose a rsync mirror to output into the file: mirrorselect -i -r -o >> /etc/portage/repos.conf/gentoo.conf

Command details

2.5.4-r1

Documentation

https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Mirrorselect

Platform

Linux

VCS repository link (e.g. GitHub, GitLab)

https://gitweb.gentoo.org/proj/mirrorselect.git/

Additional information

Complete noob -- I couldn't make a PR so I hope by here is fine.

Contributor guide

Research direction
Create a new tldr page for the 'mirrorselect' command following the project's standard format. Refer to the official Gentoo wiki (https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Mirrorselect) and the command's help output or man page for accurate examples.
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1
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Under 1 hour
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Fresh
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Clear
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Git
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90