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On 20 Oct 2003 at 10:49, Rolf Pedersen wrote:
I just finished my install and have the exact same problem.
Then all the scripts need to be fixed :-( I've tried most of them, and none of them works as they stand.
I've sent emails to the webmaster, St?phane Alexandre aka Fafane @ the webmaster link on Club pages. You should do the same, detailing your experiences.
I sent him an e-mail and he replied, giving me a different URL (although I notice that the actual web page still hasn't changed). But the URL he gave me, although it ends up at some different mirrors, still ends up giving exactly the same error when one actually executes the urpmi.addmedia command.
There is definitely something very broken somewhere. This was a clean install of 9.2 on to a brand new system, so it is uncontaminated with any prior mandrakes, urpmi commands or anything; so I believe that the problem isn't with the installation here (and in any case, I don't see what I could be diong wrong -- it's only a cut-and-paste after all).
Has anyone here actually succeeded in performing an addmedia with 9.2 using any of the URPMI setup scripts on the club site? If so, maybe that person could e-mail me privately and identify which script/mirror worked, so I can try that one too.
Doc
PS This is not a case of the mirrors being too busy. They happily download a bunch of files, and then all fail at the same place: immediately after downloading the ...i586/hdlist2.cz file.
You will have to modify the script if you want to use it to add a source. For example, take the url out of the command the script gives you, starting with ftp: and ending with mandrake/ or Mandrake/. Copy and paste that into your browser's address bar and go there. I just did this for the California site and the browser told me it was not accepting connections, the other was quite slow to load. This is a good way to check the speed and availability of a server. Try alternates until you find some reliable pattern for predictable usage.
When you are in the mandrake/ or Mandrake/ directory of the server, drill down to 9.2/contrib/i586, which is the likely source you would add from this script. You will see all the rpms of this source, which is the first argument to urpmi.admedia: the directory containing the rpms you wish to add. Modify the command the script gives you to include this final part of the path to this directory: ftp://xxxxxx/mandrake/9.2/contrib/i586 for example. In 9.2, the location of the hdlists appears to have changed to be right in this rpms directory. So, you must also modify that part of the command that gives the relative path to the hdlist. It will now be: with ./hdlist.cz If you are adding contrib/, you might want to change the name of this source from the mirror-name-derived name the script gives you to simply contrib. See man urpmi.addmedia for the syntax explanation.
The Mirrors-list link in the sidebar gives you other options for other sources: http://www.mandrakeclub.com/modules.php?name=Mirrors-list Those might work out-of-the-box or you might have to verify the paths in a browser, as in the above example. I don't know why the script gives these commands but I know others have been able to add a source following this sort of strategy of confirming paths: http://www.mandrakeclub.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=Splatt_Forum&file=viewtopic&topic=12767&forum=11
I was also able to add a club_comm source by typing drakclub at a root prompt and following that route.
Rolf
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