[plug] urpmi problem?

[Mark]

Richard Meyer wrote:

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>Hi Mark,
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>Don't know what your problem is, but I set it up according to the following
>stuff I got from Scott Middleton - it worked for me.
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>RichardM
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Hi Richard

Have tried this site before and other mirrors in the past.

I tried reseting with   urpmi.removemedia -a

I  get the same error.

urpmi.addmedia contrib 
ftp://ftp.cs.ucr.edu/pub/mirrors/mandrake/Mandrake-old/9.0/contrib/RPMS 
with ../../i586/Mandrake/base/hdlist2.cz
added medium contrib
retrieving description file of "contrib"...
...retrieving done
retrieving source hdlist (or synthesis) of "contrib"...
--10:14:30--  
ftp://ftp.cs.ucr.edu/pub/mirrors/mandrake/Mandrake-old/9.0/i586/Mandrake/base/hdlist2.cz
           => 
`/var/cache/urpmi/partial/ftp.cs.ucr.edu/pub/mirrors/mandrake/Mandrake-old/9.0/i586/Mandrake/base/.listing'
Resolving ftp.cs.ucr.edu... done.
Connecting to ftp.cs.ucr.edu[138.23.169.15]:21... connected.
Logging in as anonymous ... Logged in!
==> SYST ... done.    ==> PWD ... done.
==> TYPE I ... done.  ==> CWD 
/pub/mirrors/mandrake/Mandrake-old/9.0/i586/Mandrake/base ... done.
==> PASV ... done.    ==> LIST ... done.

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] 1,469          6.26K/s

10:14:36 (6.26 KB/s) - 
`/var/cache/urpmi/partial/ftp.cs.ucr.edu/pub/mirrors/mandrake/Mandrake-old/9.0/i586/Mandrake/base/.listing' 
saved [1469]

Removed 
`/var/cache/urpmi/partial/ftp.cs.ucr.edu/pub/mirrors/mandrake/Mandrake-old/9.0/i586/Mandrake/base/.listing'.
--10:14:36--  
ftp://ftp.cs.ucr.edu/pub/mirrors/mandrake/Mandrake-old/9.0/i586/Mandrake/base/hdlist2.cz
           => 
`/var/cache/urpmi/partial/ftp.cs.ucr.edu/pub/mirrors/mandrake/Mandrake-old/9.0/i586/Mandrake/base/hdlist2.cz'
==> CWD not required.
==> PASV ... done.    ==> RETR hdlist2.cz ... done.
Length: 6,581,870

100%[========================================================================================================================>] 
6,581,870      2.77K/s    ETA 00:00

10:53:15 (2.77 KB/s) - 
`/var/cache/urpmi/partial/ftp.cs.ucr.edu/pub/mirrors/mandrake/Mandrake-old/9.0/i586/Mandrake/base/hdlist2.cz' 
saved [6581870]


FINISHED --10:53:15--
Downloaded: 6,581,870 bytes in 1 files
retrieve of source hdlist (or synthesis) failed
no hdlist file found for medium "contrib"
examining synthesis file [/var/lib/urpmi/synthesis.hdlist.contrib.cz]
problem reading synthesis file of medium "contrib"
unable to update medium "contrib"



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>>Being an apt-getter myself it wasn't obvious to me either
>>go to this URL
>>http://plf.zarb.org/~nanardon/urpmiweb.php
>>It can't get much easier.
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>>Sorry forgot to say.
>>To update: urpmi.update updates (or whatever you called it eg
>>"urpmi.update main")
>>to upgrade packages : urpmi --auto-select
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>>I did it last night at home for the first time and it needed 88MB so be
>>ready.
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>----- Forwarded by Richard Meyer/Australia/Contr/IBM on 27/06/2003 09:44 AM
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>                      Mark                                                                                                          
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>                                               Subject:  [plug] urpmi problem?                                                      
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>Hi all,
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>I have not used urpmi before.
>After following replys to the mandrake 9.0 upgrade question I tried.
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>urpmi.addmedia --update pmupd \
>http://public.planetmirror.com/pub/linux/mandrake/updates/9.0/RPMS \
>with ../base/hdlist.cz
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>...and later got
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>Downloaded: 4,470,311 bytes in 1 files
>retrieve of source hdlist (or synthesis) failed
>no hdlist file found for medium "pmupd"
>examining synthesis file [/var/lib/urpmi/synthesis.hdlist.pmupd.cz]
>problem reading synthesis file of medium "pmupd"
>unable to update medium "pmupd"
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>Any one else had this problem with            planetmirror
>Before I try this again has the download failed or is it more likely
>to be a problem my end.
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>There looked to be some problems with the existing removeable media.
>Whats the best way to fix this.
>Can I remove urpmi and re install or rebuild the config files some how.
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>Mark
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