Re: brave-browser repo metadata on the fritz?

25 Jul 2023

      On 7/24/23 23:05, Andrei Borzenkov wrote:
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On 25.07.2023 04:13, David C. Rankin wrote:
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On 7/22/23 04:37, David C. Rankin wrote:
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sudo zypper addrepo
https://brave-browser-rpm-release.s3.brave.com/brave-browser.repo
Adding an alias to the end of the above command fails.
Show where instructions that you claimed to have followed tell to do so.
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The actual repo url
should be provide and not a link to the metadata.
If you followed the instructions you had the repo definition with the correct 
URL.
As stated in my very first e-mail in this thread:

$ zar https://brave-browser-rpm-release.s3.brave.com/brave-browser.repo brave
Adding repository 'brave' 
...................................................................................[done]
Repository 'brave' successfully added

URI         : https://brave-browser-rpm-release.s3.brave.com/brave-browser.repo
Enabled     : Yes
GPG Check   : Yes
Autorefresh : Yes
Priority    : 99 (default priority)

Repository priorities in effect: 
     (See 'zypper lr -P' for details)
       90 (raised priority)  :  1 repository
       99 (default priority) : 17 repositories
Retrieving repository 'brave' metadata 
.....................................................................[error]
Repository 'brave' is invalid.
[brave|https://brave-browser-rpm-release.s3.brave.com/brave-browser.repo] 
Valid metadata not found at specified URL
History:
  - [brave|https://brave-browser-rpm-release.s3.brave.com/brave-browser.repo] 
Repository type can't be determined.

Please check if the URIs defined for this repository are pointing to a valid 
repository.
Skipping repository 'brave' because of the above error.
Could not refresh the repositories because of errors.

and for completeness again:

$ type zar
zar is aliased to `zaddrepo'

and

$ type zaddrepo
zaddrepo is a function
zaddrepo ()
{
     [ -z $1 -o -z $2 ] && {
         printf "error: insufficient arguments.\n";
         printf "usage: zar URL Alias\n";
         return 1
     };
     if [ $UID -eq 0 ]; then
         zypper ar -k -f "$1" "$2" && zypper ref "$2";
     else
         sudo zypper ar -k -f "$1" "$2" && sudo zypper ref "$2";
     fi
}

-- 
David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.