Thanks for the update! Let me know if you have issues reproducing this. But this should be sufficient (with an entry for api.suse.de in ~/.netrc): $ osc -A https://api.suse.de/ meta prj "$project" >data.xml $ curl -n -T data.xml "https://api.suse.de/source/$project/_meta?force=1" 500 Internal Server Error If you are the administrator of this website, then please read this web application's log file and/or the web server's log file to find out what went wrong.