Comment # 15 on bug 1214135 from Michael Andres

(In reply to Bill Wayson from comment #12)
> After reading this, I copied all of the /etc/zypp/repos.d/openSUSE\:*.repo
> files to a location outside of /etc, and then used "yast2 repositories" to
> modify one (and only one) of the openSUSE service repos (repo-oss).  I
> simply changed "http" in the URI to "https".  Interestingly (to me):
> 
> 1. That repo file had these lines added to it:
> 		path=/
> 		type=rpm-md
> 		keeppackages=0
>    and this line deleted:
> 		service=openSUSE

Thank's a lot! The deleted 'service=openSUSE' line is what decouples the
repository from the service. The added lines are unnecessary, but don't do
harm. 


It looks like YAST does not simply change the URL in the RepoInfo it holds, but
creates a new one and transfers the data manually. Missing the ones it probably
does not know about.