[Cialug]mandrake update

[Barry Von Ahsen]

you can use
http://easyurpmi.zarb.org/

to find new update sources, I'm not sure how they work with the power 
pack.  cs.wisc.edu has gotten better with their mirror, and rutgers and 
psu are good, but they tend to drop non-current mirrors pretty quickly

-barry



Dan Hockey wrote:
> This is what I've come up with this weekend trying to get mandrake 
> update to work since the urpmi fix didn't work either.
> Mandrake update used the following url which doesn't seem to work.(which 
> is one of many)
> but when I use mozilla the url works just fine.
> http://mandrake.mirrors.pair.com/Mandrakelinux/official/updates/10.1/main_updates 
> 
> media_info/synthesis.hdist.cz <- this file no longer exists on this page 
> and the other pages I checked myself.
> when I try to update the following dialog shows up.
> 
> ----------------------------------
> starting download of 'synthesis.hdlist.cz from medium update_source'
> -----------------------------------
> 
> depending on what happens next one of the follow will show up
> 
> --------------------------------------
> it's impossible to retrive the list of new packeges from the media 
> 'update_source'. Either this update media is misconfigured, and in this 
> case you should use the software media manager to remove it and re-add 
> it in order to reconfiguree it. either it is currently unreachable and 
> you should try later.
> ---------------------------------------
> or
> -----------------------------------------
> There was an error downloading the mirror list
> couldn't connect
> The network or the mandrakesoft website may be unavailable
> please try again later.
> -----------------------------------------
> Since I bought the mdk10.1 power pack version I was hoping to keep 
> things up to date for some time. I was also trying to fix this myself 
> without reinstalling.I was thinking of doing a clean install to try to 
> fix this problem, but the computer I tested this on wouldn't update 
> either.I also tried the 'update after installing' with the same results.
> After looking at some different mandrake update pages(mainly http) it 
> looks like to me that they moved things around and the 
> 'media_info/synthesis.hdist.cz' file is nowhere to be found.
> At this point I've run out of ideas to try.
> -dh
> 
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