On Sat, 17 Jan 2004 17:44:05 -0700
Mike Adolf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Did a "urpmi.addmedia contrib ftp://ftp...
> and got the error 
> -----------------------------
> "retrieving source hdlist (or synthesis) of "contrib"... 
> ftp://ftp.tugraz.at/mirror/Mandrake-linux/Mandrake/9.1/i586/Mandrake/base/hdlist2.cz
> ...retrieving failed: curl failed: exited with 9 or signal 0
> retrieve of source hdlist (or synthesis) failed
> no hdlist file found for medium "contrib"
> ------------------------------
> Which tell me nothing! Help anyone?

Whenever you get 'curl failed', try adding the --wget switch to the command,
works when curl doesn't, mostly.

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