2 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 53920360..70d713af 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -1,3 +1,5 @@
+- better error message while downloading mirror list (#39675)
+
 Version 4.9.11 - 1 April 2008, Thierry Vignaud
 
 - rpmdrake:
diff --git a/rpmdrake.pm b/rpmdrake.pm
index da4a8570..eab07e7a 100644
--- a/rpmdrake.pm
+++ b/rpmdrake.pm
@@ -557,7 +557,7 @@ sub mirrors {
                                                gtkflush();
                                            },
                                        );
-            $res or do { c::set_tagged_utf8($res); die $res };
+            $res or die N("retrieval of [%s] failed", $file) . "\n";
             return $canceled ? () : cat_($file);
         });
     my @mirrors = @{ mirror::list(common::parse_LDAP_namespace_structure(cat_('/etc/product.id')), 'distrib') || [] };