Comment # 1 on bug 1139795 from Michael Andres

Libzypp does not deal with this file. The file is owned by the openSUSE-release
package. If it is missing after your update the release-package (and
product:openSUSE) maybe got removed. Or the release package got damaged..

Could you please attach the zipper.log (after the update)
and the output of `rpm -V openSUSE-release'.


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(Re)installing the openSUSE-release package should bring back the file.