I'm getting the same effect, but the one thing that occurs to me is is that you used to have to put the club username and password in. this is no longer asked for, I started to get urpmi.addmedia problems about 8 weeks ago.
Any significance ?? Richard On Tue, 2003-10-21 at 21:22, Rolf Pedersen wrote: > D. R. Evans wrote: > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > 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 > > > > > > > > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > > Version: PGP 8.0 -- QDPGP 2.70 > > Comment: http://community.wow.net/grt/qdpgp.html > > > > iQA/AwUBP5V5UWnXrLw2KRK4EQKHvQCgrGAMRtIAez834vyeb1orMmuPJgEAoNnY > > DLIfNDrLFhGaCS3uCQYxxHDl > > =1cul > > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com > > > > > ______________________________________________________________________ > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- Richard Bown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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