I went
back to a July 20th Tumbleweed - and changed the hostname to
twslow did this to get to slowroll per website info
rm /etc/zypp/repos.d/* zypper ar https://cdn.opensuse.org/repositories/openSUSE:/ALP:/Experimental:/Slowroll/base/repo/oss/ base-oss zypper ar https://cdn.opensuse.org/repositories/openSUSE:/ALP:/Experimental:/Slowroll/base/repo/non-oss/ base-non-oss zypper ar -p 80 https://cdn.opensuse.org/repositories/openSUSE:/ALP:/Experimental:/Slowroll/standard/ update zypper ar --disable https://cdn.opensuse.org/repositories/openSUSE:/ALP:/Experimental:/Slowroll/base/repo/src-oss/ base-src-oss zypper ar http://codecs.opensuse.org/openh264/openSUSE_Tumbleweed/ h264 zypper ar -p 70 http://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/linux/misc/packman/suse/openSUSE_Slowroll/Essentials/ packman TWSLOW:~ # ll /etc/zypp/repos.d total 6 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 142 Sep 12 22:57 base-non-oss.repo -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 134 Sep 12 22:57 base-oss.repo -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 142 Sep 12 22:57 base-src-oss.repo -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 96 Sep 12 22:57 h264.repo -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 131 Sep 12 22:57 packman.repo -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 139 Sep 12 22:57 update.repo TWSLOW:~ # TWSLOW:~ # zypper ref Retrieving repository 'base-non-oss' metadata ...........................[error] Repository 'base-non-oss' is invalid. [base-non-oss|https://cdn.opensuse.org/repositories/openSUSE:/ALP:/Experimental:/Slowroll/base/repo/non-oss/] Valid metadata not found at specified URL History: - Timeout exceeded when accessing 'https://cdn.opensuse.org/repositories/openSUSE:/ALP:/Experimental:/Slowroll/base/repo/non-oss/repodata/876557493f31abad37825b61e24c91ddc5859b8a65315e16258318341df1dcc2-appdata.xml.gz'. - Can't provide ./repodata/876557493f31abad37825b61e24c91ddc5859b8a65315e16258318341df1dcc2-appdata.xml.gz Please check if the URIs defined for this repository are pointing to a valid repository. Skipping repository 'base-non-oss' because of the above error.
Larry Len Rainey composed on 2023-09-12 21:43 (UTC-0500):
I am trying to see what slowroll is like and used this guide https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:SlowrollThis is what I get updating Tumbleweed: (most is in red but did not copy)Doesn't look broken from here: # zypper lr Repository priorities in effect: (See 'zypper lr -P' for details) 80 (raised priority) : 2 repositories 99 (default priority) : 4 repositories # | Alias | Enabled | GPG Check | URI --+----------+---------+-----------+---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 | FCLunst | Yes | ( p) Yes | http://silk.apana.org.au/rpm-unstable-dev 2 | KDE3 | Yes | (r ) Yes | http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/KDE:/KDE3/openSUSE_Tumbleweed/ 3 | Non-OSS | Yes | (r ) Yes | http://cdn.opensuse.org/repositories/openSUSE:/ALP:/Experimental:/Slowroll/base/repo/non-oss/ 4 | OSS | Yes | (r ) Yes | http://cdn.opensuse.org/repositories/openSUSE:/ALP:/Experimental:/Slowroll/base/repo/oss/ 5 | Update | Yes | (r ) Yes | http://cdn.opensuse.org/repositories/openSUSE:/ALP:/Experimental:/Slowroll/standard/ 6 | openh264 | Yes | (r ) Yes | http://codecs.opensuse.org/openh264/openSUSE_Tumbleweed/ # zypper ref Repository 'FCunst' is up to date. Retrieving repository 'KDE3' metadata ................................................................................................................................[done] Building repository 'KDE3' cache .....................................................................................................................................[done] Repository 'Non-OSS' is up to date. Repository 'OSS' is up to date. Retrieving repository 'Update' metadata ..............................................................................................................................[done] Building repository 'Update' cache ...................................................................................................................................[done] Repository 'openh264' is up to date. All repositories have been refreshed. # Not found on your page link or on <https://lists.opensuse.org/archives/list/factory@lists.opensuse.org/message/EWVAEC2HNC2J57IFXMJPW6SBO657OZL2/> but somewhere I saw written that upgrades can be made to Slowroll from either Leap or TW, but if done from TW, it should be done from an older TW release, ostensibly, one older than the latest Slowroll release. Did you upgrade, or are you trying to upgrade? If yes, from what releasever?