[plug] urpmi - what am I doing wrong

[Mark Saxon]

J Michael Gilks wrote:

>>I tried unsuccessfully to add mirror.pacific.net.au's 10.0/Official but
>>could not figure out how to specify the hdlist.
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>A neat trick I picked up on the Mandrake forums is
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>urpmi.addmedia --distrib 
>http://mirror.pacific.net.au/linux/Mandrakelinux/devel/10.1/i586
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Hi all,

I like this one hit idea but it still seems to be looking for a hdlist.
Assumed from Leons post it would find one automagicaly.
What am I doing wrong?

from my console

[root at localhost mark]# urpmi.addmedia --distrib 
http://mirror.pacific.net.au/linux/Mandrakelinux/devel/10.1/i586/
retrieving hdlists file...
...retrieving failed: curl failed: exited with 7 or signal 0

unable to access first installation medium (no hdlists file found)
examining synthesis file [/var/lib/urpmi/synthesis.hdlist.Installation 
DVD (cdrom1).cz]
[root at localhost mark]#


>This will give you a set of sources for Main1, Contrib1 and jpackage1 with no 
>further input from you.
>Use the Media Manager in the Software Management tab of the Control Centre to 
>add an updates source
>http://mirror.pacific.net.au/linux/Mandrakelinux/official/updates/10.1/main_updates
>and also the PLF stuff
>http://public.planetmirror.com/pub/plf/mandrake/free/10.1
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>This sort of choice is what is nice about Linux.
>The first command is command line and works great taking a lot of guesswork 
>and hassle out of finding hdlist files, which have been known to change 
>location.
>The rest is using the Control Centre GUI. Click Add in Media Manger, choose 
>the server type, paste the address and it does its stuff.
>I always do updates from the command line and install from the gui.
>A mixture of command line and gui to do the job and keep me comfortable.
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>After these sources are configured all packages appear in the one list.
>I also had some intermittent problems with pacific.net.au last month, but keep 
>hammering at the site and eventually it comes good.
>I also on occasion rail against Mandrake, every release seems to include some 
>'feature' to piss me off. However, that said, enough old 'features' are fixed 
>beyond my wildest dreams that I always come back.
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>While struggling to maintain other distros I tend to have dreams of Control 
>Centre from which I do not want to wake.
>
>Love
>Mike.
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