I wonder how many using slowroll really are using tumbleweed repos.

After downloading slowroll iso on sept 14 from here https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Slowroll

I was comparing my tumbleweed and slowroll and discovered that they are the same? How could that be? The repos that installed pointed to tumbleweed!!!!!!!

I get the same errors as when I tried to update my tumbleweed to slowroll.

I discovered the files they say are invalid really are - I attached the small one - see for yourself  - they do not contain what zypper expects!!!!! Opera and Steam!!!!!!!!!

Has anyone looked at what downloads in the xml.gz files that say invalid data? I did.

I followed the webpage and did this :

To use in Leap or an older Tumbleweed, replace repositories

   rm /etc/zypp/repos.d/*
   zypper ar http://cdn.opensuse.org/repositories/openSUSE:/ALP:/Experimental:/Slowroll/base/repo/oss/ base-oss
   zypper ar http://cdn.opensuse.org/repositories/openSUSE:/ALP:/Experimental:/Slowroll/base/repo/non-oss/ base-non-oss
   zypper ar -p 80 --refresh http://cdn.opensuse.org/repositories/openSUSE:/ALP:/Experimental:/Slowroll/standard/ update
   zypper ar --disable http://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

We do not recommend using devel repos on top, unless those are specifically compiled for Slowroll. Tumbleweed might work, but might also break occasionally. 

End this.

I even tried other than the cdn repos like download and mirrorcache - no difference in results.

and now I get this :

TWSLOW:~ # zypper ref
Retrieving repository 'base-non-oss' metadata ...........................[error]
Repository 'base-non-oss' is invalid.
[base-non-oss|http://cdn.opensuse.org/repositories/openSUSE:/ALP:/Experimental:/Slowroll/base/repo/non-oss/] Valid metadata not found at specified URL
History:
 - Timeout exceeded when accessing 'http://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.
Retrieving repository 'base-oss' metadata ...............................[error]
Repository 'base-oss' is invalid.
[base-oss|http://cdn.opensuse.org/repositories/openSUSE:/ALP:/Experimental:/Slowroll/base/repo/oss/] Valid metadata not found at specified URL
History:
 - Timeout exceeded when accessing 'http://cdn.opensuse.org/repositories/openSUSE:/ALP:/Experimental:/Slowroll/base/repo/oss/repodata/e3c8e86e179112dc47c363e8b83d65fa60e244be612f1020997e05afa864a5be-appdata.xml.gz'.
 - Can't provide ./repodata/e3c8e86e179112dc47c363e8b83d65fa60e244be612f1020997e05afa864a5be-appdata.xml.gz

Please check if the URIs defined for this repository are pointing to a valid repository.
Skipping repository 'base-oss' because of the above error.
Retrieving repository 'h264' metadata ....................................[done]
Building repository 'h264' cache .........................................[done]
Retrieving repository 'pack' metadata ....................................[done]
Building repository 'pack' cache .........................................[done]
Retrieving repository 'update' metadata ..................................[done]
Building repository 'update' cache .......................................[done]
Some of the repositories have not been refreshed because of an error.
TWSLOW:~ # cd /etc/zypp/repos.d
TWSLOW:/etc/zypp/repos.d # ls
1                  base-oss.repo      h264.repo  update.repo
base-non-oss.repo  base-src-oss.repo  pack.repo
TWSLOW:/etc/zypp/repos.d # vi base-oss.repo
TWSLOW:/etc/zypp/repos.d # vi base-non-oss.repo
TWSLOW:/etc/zypp/repos.d # zypper ref
Retrieving repository 'base-non-oss' metadata ...........................[error]
Repository 'base-non-oss' is invalid.
[base-non-oss|http://mirrorcache.opensuse.org/repositories/openSUSE:/ALP:/Experimental:/Slowroll/base/repo/non-oss/] Valid metadata not found at specified URL
History:
 - Timeout exceeded when accessing 'http://mirrorcache.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.
Retrieving repository 'base-oss' metadata ...............................[error]
Repository 'base-oss' is invalid.
[base-oss|http://mirrorcache.opensuse.org/repositories/openSUSE:/ALP:/Experimental:/Slowroll/base/repo/oss/] Valid metadata not found at specified URL
History:
 - Timeout exceeded when accessing 'http://mirrorcache.opensuse.org/repositories/openSUSE:/ALP:/Experimental:/Slowroll/base/repo/oss/repodata/e3c8e86e179112dc47c363e8b83d65fa60e244be612f1020997e05afa864a5be-appdata.xml.gz'.
 - Can't provide ./repodata/e3c8e86e179112dc47c363e8b83d65fa60e244be612f1020997e05afa864a5be-appdata.xml.gz

Please check if the URIs defined for this repository are pointing to a valid repository.
Skipping repository 'base-oss' because of the above error.
Repository 'h264' is up to date.                                                
Repository 'pack' is up to date.                                                
Repository 'update' is up to date.                                              
Some of the repositories have not been refreshed because of an error.
TWSLOW:/etc/zypp/repos.d # 

The issue stayed the same when I changed repos.