Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (551 mails)

[Patrick Shanahan <paka@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

* Carlos E. R. <carlos.e.r@xxxxxxxxxxxx> [05-27-11 20:00]:
> On 2011-05-27 22:06, Andrew Joakimsen wrote:
> > The mirrors are still out there. I don't understand why we need to
> > break people's package managers after a certain time.
> >
> > Sure its EOL, sure it's not suggested to use, etc, etc. But why do we
> > need to break people's package managers?

it doesn't *break* the package managers.  Disable the inaccessable repos.
 
> The package managers are already broken. The packagekit applet is
> complaining here about every 15 minutes that it could not connect to a
> software source.
>
> I had to do:
>
>  mv /usr/sbin/packagekitd /usr/sbin/packagekitd.noquiero
>
> to stop that nonsense.
>
>
> Look how many repos fail for me:
>
>
>  Telcontar:~ # zypper refresh
>  Repository 'NVIDIA Repository' is up to date.
>  Download (curl) error for
> 'http://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/linux/misc/packman/suse/11.2/repodata/repomd.xml':
>  Error code: User abort
>  Error message: connect() timed out!
>  Error retrieving metadata for 'OBS: KDE: KDE3':
>  File '/repodata/repomd.xml' not found on medium
> 'http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/KDE%3a/KDE3/openSUSE_11.2/'
>
>  Skipping repository 'OBS: KDE: KDE3' because of the above error.

to fix:   zypper rr "OBS: KDE: KDE3"
    or:   zypper mr -d "OBS: KDE: KDE3"

the inactive repos are not being maintained, why not remove them?
    
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