workarounding downloading distro list as user for 2008.1 where

sometimes urpmi reports it failed to download the list when it
actually did with success

"curl failed: exited with signal 127"

however the requested file did got downloaded and did exist on local
hard disk even if it was unlinked just before performing the sync()
call

what's more, it only failed in 50% of the case; even more strangely,
when run with "strace" it works (but still failed if run with "strace
-f")

2 files changed, 6 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 92fb510e..77f62a1b 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+- mdkapplet
+  o workarounding downloading distro list as user for 2008.1 where
+    sometimes urpmi reports it failed to download the list when it
+    actually did with success
+
 Version 2.44 - 30 September 2008
 
 - mdkapplet
diff --git a/mdkapplet_urpm.pm b/mdkapplet_urpm.pm
index 980854af..203a968e 100644
--- a/mdkapplet_urpm.pm
+++ b/mdkapplet_urpm.pm
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ sub get_content {
     my $file = $download_dir . basename($url);
 
     unlink $file; # prevent "partial file" errors
-    urpm::download::sync($urpm, undef, [ $url ], quiet => 1, dir => $download_dir) or return;
+    eval { urpm::download::sync($urpm, undef, [ $url ], quiet => 1, dir => $download_dir) };
     #sync_url($urpm, $url, dir => $download_dir, quiet => 1) or return;
 
     my @l = cat_($file);