* J Leslie Turriff [02-22-21 12:00]:

Now that I've upgraded to Leap 15.2, I'm trying to re-add the Packman repository, but when I try to refresh it, zypper tells me

| █ zypper ref -r Packman | Retrieving repository 'Packman' metadata ................................................................................................. [error] | Repository 'Packman' is invalid. | [Packman| https://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/linux/misc/packman/suse/openSUSE_Leap_15.2/] Valid metadata not found at specified URL

does it work with http://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/linux/misc/packman/suse/openSUSE_Leap_15.2/ -- (paka)Patrick Shanahan Plainfield, Indiana, USA @ptilopteri http://en.opensuse.org openSUSE Community Member facebook/ptilopteri Photos: http://wahoo.no-ip.org/piwigo paka @ IRCnet freenode

On 2021-01-14 3:40 p.m., J Leslie Turriff wrote:

Now that I've upgraded to Leap 15.2, I'm trying to re-add the Packman repository, but when I try to refresh it, zypper tells me

In the past, I've had problems with the repository on gwdg.de. Since changing to use the one at http://packman.inode.at/suse/openSUSE_Leap_15.2/ I've had no problems at all.

On 14/01/2021 22.40, J Leslie Turriff wrote:

After removing and re-adding Packman (using cut-and-paste from https://en.opensuse.org/Additional_package_repositories) several times with the same results, I tried using YaST's Software Repositories tool. Using the Add button and selecting Community Repositories, YaST tells me

| Unable to download list of repositories | or no repositories defined

(see attached)

The list of community repositories that YaST can add is a file served from somewhere, and sometimes it fails. I don't know exactly where this file is. But, asking YaSt to do its magic and examining the log at that precise instant reveals it: Telcontar(23760) [Ruby] clients/inst_productsources.rb:590 Downloading list of repos from https://opensuse-community.org/openSUSE_Leap_152_Community_Additional.xml This minute, it works :-)

However, I'm able to browse to https://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/linux/misc/packman/suse/openSUSE_Leap_15.2/ and view its contents. I also tried disabling privoxy, but that didn't help.

That's a different error. It is possible that you have to use http and not https. -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 15.2 x86_64 at Telcontar)