Jose Manuel Macias Luna <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

>       I'm now using Mandrake Cooker, I upgraded from mandrake 8.1
>   a couple of days ago. My intention was to use some packages in
>   Cooker in my laptop running 8.1, but since MandrakeUpdate didn't
>    work properly, I upgraded to Cooker in the hope it would solve that
>    issue.

Cooker is normally unstable, should we say it again.

>       The main problem was a coredump when doing an update, but
>    in Cooker I'm getting the same problem too. Yesterday I also upgraded 
>    (by searching the packages in MandrakeUpdate) to urpmi-3.1-5mdk,
>     gurpmi-3.1-5mdk   and rpmdrake-1.4-6mdk. And I have now and

You need rpmtools updated, rpm too problably, make sure everything is up-to-date
in fact.

>     additional problem,   now it tries to download the lists with curl (I think
>     it used wget before). curl  is reporting a problem in the arguments 
>     passed and cannot download package lists. 

Upgrade curl too.

>        So, what's better ? to delete those packages and reinstall them 
>     manually? to edit some config file and made again wget the download
>     tool by default ?

You still can use wget (even if curl is installed) by adding --wget to command
line or by removing curl (if possible).

>        And how about that coredump I'm getting when I do an update ?

What is your /etc/urpmi/urpmi.cfg ? and output of ls -l /var/lib/urpmi ?

>        Thanks a lot, and I'm sorry for reporting so many problems in my 
>     first post to the list ...  ;-)

The problem would be not to report them at all, or the best is to fix by
yourself and send me the patch.

Fran�ois.

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