What is wrong? [solved]

[scarecrow]

urpmi uses either http, or ftp mirrors (so far I've not seen any ssh/ssl/https mirror).

So, the default ports are the obvious ones: 80 for http, and 21 for ftp.

[ilia_kr]

I found, that i can download the 'hdlist.cz' manually from a mirror using a web browser, but urpmi still cant do that.

Any ideas?

[ilia_kr]

I've tried to play with urpmi, thats what i got:

 

 
[root@Linux ilia]# urpmi.addmedia --wget main ftp://mandrake.contactel.cz/Mandrakelinux/official/10.1/i586/media/main with /media_info/synthesis.hdlist_main.cz
added medium main
computing md5sum of existing source hdlist (or synthesis)
retrieving source hdlist (or synthesis) of "main"...
ftp://mandrake.contactel.cz/Mandrakelinux/official/10.1/i586/media/main/media_info/
synthesis.hdlist_main.cz
retrieval of source hdlist (or synthesis) failed
no hdlist file found for medium "main"
examining synthesis file [/var/lib/urpmi/synthesis.hdlist.main.cz]
problem reading synthesis file of medium "main"
unable to update medium "main"

[root@Linux ilia]# urpmi.addmedia main ftp://mandrake.contactel.cz/Mandrakelinux/official/10.1/i586/media/main with /media_info/synthesis.hdlist_main.cz
added medium main
retrieving source hdlist (or synthesis) of "main"...
ftp://mandrake.contactel.cz/Mandrakelinux/official/10.1/i586/media/main/media_info/
synthesis.hdlist_main.cz
...retrieving failed: curl: (7) couldn't connect
retrieval of source hdlist (or synthesis) failed
no hdlist file found for medium "main"
examining synthesis file [/var/lib/urpmi/synthesis.hdlist.main.cz]
problem reading synthesis file of medium "main"
unable to update medium "main"

 

- i tried --wget option => nothing

- "retrieving failed: curl: (7) couldn't connect" => ??

[arctic]

There seems to have been a directory name change at some of the mirror sites, as the curl error indicates. Check the ftp-tree in your browser and take a look, if the path is really correct for 10.1 (maybe they removed 10.1 from the mirrors already or changed the path from Mandrakelinux to Mandrivalinux...) and check if there is only a hdlist or a synthesis-hdlist available, too. Go to previous folders if the browser cannot connect to the ftp-site (start at ftp://mandrake.contactel.cz/ and continue to explore the tree).

[ilia_kr]

Finally, I did it !!!

 

That's what i got:

[root@Linux ilia]# urpmi.addmedia --wget main ftp://ftp.lip6.fr/pub/linu												   x/distributions/mandrake/10.1/i586/media/main with media_info/synthesis.hdlist.cz
added medium main
computing md5sum of existing source hdlist (or synthesis)
retrieving source hdlist (or synthesis) of "main"...
ftp://ftp.lip6.fr/pub/linux/distributions/mandrake/10.1/i586/media/main/media_info/
synthesis.hdlist.cz
found probed hdlist (or synthesis) as media_info/synthesis.hdlist.cz
...retrieving done

examining hdlist file [/var/cache/urpmi/partial/hdlist.main.cz]
examining synthesis file [/var/cache/urpmi/partial/hdlist.main.cz]
examining pubkey file of "main"...
found 0 headers in cache
removing 0 obsolete headers in cache
write config file [/etc/urpmi/urpmi.cfg]
[root@Linux ilia]#

 

I assume tha is what i should see in the end, wright?

 

Anyway, the problem & the solutions:

- unproperly configured NAT at the router (i opened port 21 and NATted it to linux box)

- curl didn't work for me, so i switched to wget

 

Thank you all for helping me!!!