Hy everyone..

I'm trying to upgrade my 10.1 official to the new cooker, but in these days, ftp mirrors are really "work in progress", So, I'd like to find SOMETHING to download rpm that I need to without installing them (I don't want to mirror the repository, because my adsl is too slow).. URPMI is great, but, apparently, there's no way to avoid installation... synaptic and apt-get are very good, I can choose an "only download" option...but there is no way to use a synthesis list and, mainly,to add a local repository :-(

Please helpe me!!

Maybe I'm missing something in your request, because the solution seems just so simply ....
use wget or lynx to just download the *.rpm file to your HDD.

Oh, sorry! ;-)

I'd like upgrade my distro only for rpm already installed, without looking for dependencies (urpmi and apt-get do it easily, but I want ONLY download needed rpms WITHOUT INSTALLING)

The repositories are merely FTP sites which you can anonymously connect to and download from at will.

However you are trying to install COOKER which is a developement release and apt to be buggy.
(this is why it's called COOKER after all.).

You should only use the 10.1 RPM's which are the latest available for Mandrake if you seek stability and good operation.

Cooker while at times good, is a crap shoot.

If you install one package to the cooker level you end up having to upgrade the whole OS to Cooker.

URPMI tries to do this for you to keep things unified and consistent.

By bypassing this mechanism you are defeating the whole point of the Mandrake distribution.

It's like trying to install Windows 95 OS programs and System Components under Windows XP... nothing but problems waiting to happen.