MGA8: adding medium "trinity" invalid MD5SUM file #114

Basic information

R14.0.11:
Mageia 8:
Intel x64:

Description

The installation as described here for MAGEIA does not work: result is a MD5SUM error.

Steps to reproduce

https://wiki.trinitydesktop.org/Mageia_Trinity_Repository_Installation_Instructions

[root@pcmag81 ~]# urpmi.removemedia trinity trinity-noarch
trying to select nonexistent medium "trinity"
trying to select nonexistent medium "trinity-noarch"
[root@pcmag81 ~]# urpmi.addmedia trinity http://mirror.ppa.trinitydesktop.org/trinity/rpm/mga8/trinity-r14/RPMS/x86_64
adding medium "trinity"
invalid MD5SUM file (downloaded from http://mirror.ppa.trinitydesktop.org/trinity/rpm/mga8/trinity-r14/RPMS/x86_64/media_info)
[root@pcmag81 ~]# urpmi.addmedia trinity-noarch http://mirror.ppa.trinitydesktop.org/trinity/rpm/mga8/trinity-r14/RPMS/noarch
adding medium "trinity-noarch"
invalid MD5SUM file (downloaded from http://mirror.ppa.trinitydesktop.org/trinity/rpm/mga8/trinity-r14/RPMS/noarch/media_info)
[root@pcmag81 ~]#

Screenshots

Hello,

Can you try to add following option to /etc/urpmi/urpmi.cfg:

{
curl-options: -L
}

Then try again.

unfortunately did not help...

[root@localhost ~]# tail /etc/urpmi/urpmi.cfg
{
curl-options: -L
}
[root@localhost ~]# urpmi.removemedia trinity trinity-noarch
urpmi.addmedia trinity http://mirror.ppa.trinitydesktop.org/trinity/rpm/mga8/trinity-r14/RPMS/x86_64
urpmi.addmedia trinity-noarch http://mirror.ppa.trinitydesktop.org/trinity/rpm/mga8/trinity-r14/RPMS/noarch
trying to select nonexistent medium "trinity-noarch"
trying to select nonexistent medium "trinity"
adding medium "trinity"
invalid MD5SUM file (downloaded from http://mirror.ppa.trinitydesktop.org/trinity/rpm/mga8/trinity-r14/RPMS/x86_64/media_info)
adding medium "trinity-noarch"
invalid MD5SUM file (downloaded from http://mirror.ppa.trinitydesktop.org/trinity/rpm/mga8/trinity-r14/RPMS/noarch/media_info)
[root@localhost ~]#

Usually, the urpmi options are located at the top of file /etc/urpmi/urpmi.cfg
By default, there is an empty section like this:
{
}

This is in this existing section where the curl-options should go.
Please make sure that you have set options in the top section of the file, not elsewehere.
Additionnaly, you can also add option:
downloader: curl

The top of urpmi.cfg then looks like this:

{
curl-options: -L
downloader: curl
}

Indeed, I noticed that there is default only a "empty top section" in urpmi.cfg.
Adding the following:

{
downloader: curl
curl-options: -L
}

Now the instructions for MAGEIA as found on:

https://wiki.trinitydesktop.org/Mageia_Trinity_Repository_Installation_Instructions

do work. Thanks!

FYI:

Did delete /etc/urpmi/urpmi.cfg
Started drakconf
Choose configure media sources for install and update,
Click on "Add"

drakconf will shows a popup about contacting Mageia for the mirror list.
After a few moments, a fresh new urpmi.cfg is written by drakconf.
The fresh new urpmi.cfg does again contain a "empty top section",
so a fresh new urpmi.cfg will again result in the MD5 error.