Now I see you were actually connected - my mistake of not understanding it 
initially, thus the inappropriate proxy/internet comments ... sorry :)

Other options may be: incorrect/incomplete syntax for urpmi (usually missing 
or using incorrectly with ./bla/bla.cz, etc.). Someone may have already 
posted these as "helpers" for getting you the proper syntax, but here we go 
again, just in case you have not seen them yet:

http://nanardon.homelinux.org/urpmi.setup/
and
http://www.zarb.org/~nanardon/

One more possibility - I ran into that problem, also, myself: incorrect or 
outdated source site - try to change it. One time I had to "visit manually" 
(i.e. ftp to those directories) myself the sites I was trying to use as 
sources, to make sure the .cz files and everything else was there. I just had 
a recent experience with a site in Germany which did not have everything 
correctly, changed to a French site, and everything started working again.

And one more thing - worth checking: here are the relevant entries in my 
/etc/urpmi/urpmi.cfg, as an example:

update_source  {
  hdlist: hdlist.update_source.cz
  with_hdlist: ../base/hdlist.cz
  list: list.update_source
  update
}

cooker  {
  hdlist: hdlist.cooker.cz
  with_hdlist: ../base/hdlist.cz
  list: list.cooker
}

plf  {
  hdlist: hdlist.plf.cz
  with_hdlist: hdlist.cz
  list: list.plf
  modified
}

Check /var/lib/urpmi and make sure you have the correct 
synthesis.hdlist.<your_source_name>.cz entries for corresponding sources. 
Probably removing them all via urpmi.removemedia may not be such a bad idea, 
after all ...

Good luck,
Stef

On Tuesday 31 December 2002 03:30 pm, richard bown wrote:
> On Tue, 2002-12-31 at 20:36, Charles A Edwards wrote:
<snip>

> ...retrieving done
> retrieving source hdlist (or synthesis) of "9.0_update"...
<snip>

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