http://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1200370 Bug ID: 1200370 Summary: zypper often fails on various download and install operations due to broken repositories Classification: openSUSE Product: openSUSE Tumbleweed Version: Current Hardware: Other OS: Other Status: NEW Severity: Major Priority: P5 - None Component: libzypp Assignee: zypp-maintainers@suse.de Reporter: okurz@suse.com QA Contact: qa-bugs@suse.de Found By: --- Blocker: --- ## Observation I wonder about https://github.com/openSUSE/zypper/issues/420 Often users report problems with zypper aborting with temporary problems to either download packages, download metadata or even to reach hosts supplying packages. Usually a retry helps but this should not be necessary to be done by users. To users the problem appears transient if only individual mirrors show this behaviour and on retry one might hit a mirror that is fine or where metadata and packages are in a different, usable state. Hence zypper should apply the retry internally to help. This problem hits us multiple times a week and we already try to handle it with downstream retrying on multiple levels. Other LSG QE squads are hit by the same problem recurringly and also seemingly much more than months or years ago. There are also reports by users. So far I see good and helpful responses regarding the mirroring infrastructure, e.g. from @Andrii Nikitin (thanks for that) but no useful reaction by anyone else responsible, e.g. zypper, infrastructure, product as as a whole, etc. Can we please get a reaction from someone feeling responsible for the overall user experience of openSUSE/SLE? ## Expected result Would be great if both the interactive as well as the non-interactive mode would also offer automatic retries. Optionally on top: Command line options for e.g. --max-retries and --retry-wait-time (for waiting between the retries) ## Further details See for example the recent report https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1192435 -- You are receiving this mail because: You are on the CC list for the bug.