Hello, Is it just me or is DrakConf --> Software Management --> Software Source completely hat stand ?!?!
Start it up and you are presented with CD1, CD2 and CD3 all unchecked. So far so good. On my last day at work (I was made redundant on Thursday - sympathy please - so back to the old 56K modem for me !) I did a last download of Mandrake Cooker updates to a USB hard disc. I thought I could just point the Software Source at the removable media and get urpmi / gurpmi to do the updates for me (I have always updated entirely by hand before but there were so many files I thought I would try an automated update !). It appears that `Software Source' will not accept any hdlist of any source at any time !!! Attempting to add or `Update' from any source simply results in the message `unable to parse hdlist file of...'. The complete console output is, for example: retrieving description file of "Cooker"... retrieving source hdlist (or synthesis) of "Cooker"... ...retrieving failed: curl failed: exited with 8 or signal 0 ...retrieving done examining hdlist file [/var/cache/urpmi/partial/] examining synthesis file [/var/cache/urpmi/partial/] unable to parse hdlist file of "Cooker" examining synthesis file [/var/lib/urpmi/synthesis.] problem reading synthesis file of medium "Cooker" I am probably doing this all wrong ! Owen
