On Wed, 20 Mar 2002, Peter R. Wood (Lists) wrote:
> Hi all, > > I've got a Mandrake 8.0 ppc system which I'd like to upgrade to some of the > packages in cooker-ppc. I'm trying to use the version of urpmi to add > media, but it doesn't seem to like the hdlist files that are on the server: > > [root@wintermute root]# urpmi.addmedia cooker-ppc > ftp://ftp.rpmfind.net/linux/mandrake/cooker/cooker/ppc/Mandrake/RPMS/ > ../base/hdlist1.cz > wget of [<source_url>/] failed (maybe wget is missing?) > no hdlist file found for medium "cooker-ppc" > unable to update medium "cooker-ppc" > > I have checked the URL and it is valid, and the relative path to hdlist1.cz > is correct. Also, wget is not missing. > > Any suggestions? > I don't believe it will work remotely like that. At any rate the state of those hdlists is not guaranteed. You'll need to make a local mirror, then it will work. If anyone does have a working methodology to do this, please feel free to correct me. Stew Benedict -- MandrakeSoft OH/TN, USA http://people.mandrakesoft.com/~sbenedict/ PPC FAQ: http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/demos/PPC/FAQ/ Cooker-PPC IRC: irc.openprojects.net/#cooker-ppc
