> Next will be to detect and fix issues when actually using this feature. fyi Upgraded to rpm -qa | egrep -i "libzypp|zypper" zypper-1.11.17-5.1.x86_64 zypper-log-1.11.17-5.1.noarch libzypp-14.32.0-5.3.x86_64 libzypp-devel-14.32.0-5.3.x86_64 Adding 2 URLs to a test repo cat /etc/zypp/repos.d/LibreOffice.repo [LibreOffice] name=LibreOffice enabled=1 baseurl=http://anorien.csc.warwick.ac.uk/mirrors/download.opensuse.org/repositories/LibreOffice:/Factory/openSUSE_13.2/ http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/LibreOffice:/Factory/openSUSE_13.2/ type=rpm-md autorefresh=1 keeppackages=0 gpgcheck=1 now is accepted & refreshes correctly, using the 1st URL in the list zypper -vvv ref LibreOffice Verbosity: 3 Non-option program arguments: 'LibreOffice' Initializing Target Specified repositories: LibreOffice Checking whether to refresh metadata for LibreOffice Retrieving: http://anorien.csc.warwick.ac.uk/mirrors/download.opensuse.org/repositories/LibreOffice:/Factory/openSUSE_13.2/repodata/repomd.xml ........................................................................................[done] Repository 'LibreOffice' is up to date. Specified repositories have been refreshed. manually failing the 1st repo to check fallback - baseurl=http://anorien.csc.warwick.ac.uk/mirrors/download.opensuse.org/repositories/LibreOffice:/Factory/openSUSE_13.2/ + baseurl=http://anorien.csc.warwick.ac.uk/mirrors/download.opensuse.org/repositories/XXLibreOffice:/Factory/openSUSE_13.2/ http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/LibreOffice:/Factory/openSUSE_13.2/ attempt at refresh FAILs to fallback to the 2nd URL zypper -vvv ref LibreOffice Verbosity: 3 Non-option program arguments: 'LibreOffice' Initializing Target Specified repositories: LibreOffice Checking whether to refresh metadata for LibreOffice Retrieving: http://anorien.csc.warwick.ac.uk/mirrors/download.opensuse.org/repositories/XXLibreOffice:/Factory/openSUSE_13.2/repodata/repomd.xml ......................................................................................[error] File '/repodata/repomd.xml' not found on medium 'http://anorien.csc.warwick.ac.uk/mirrors/download.opensuse.org/repositories/XXLibreOffice:/Factory/openSUSE_13.2/' Abort, retry, ignore? [a/r/i/? shows all options] (a):