I asked on another board a while back, then yesterday on the OpenSUSE forums -- where I was then directed here. To repeat the only significant part of the question: Basically, I've recently (last few months, maybe?) noticed that my local Tumbleweed repo is more often than not in a broken state, as the repodata/repomod.xml file refers to files which do not exist -- which leads zypper to express its disappointment using red text. :) This appears to be a result of discrepancies between the always-working download.opensuse site - http://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/repo/oss/repodata/ - and the often-not-working rsync.opensuse site - http://rsync.opensuse.org/opensuse/tumbleweed/repo/oss/repodata/. The rsync site is broken right now, in fact, per the message "File './repodata/183928edbce08b88415fe1be2705f4a3cbd9484c3b465b6d86985f94ff4f871f-primary.xml.gz' not found on medium 'http://mymirrorhost/opensuse/tumbleweed/repo/oss'" Do I have to go through the process of getting access to the staging repo (I'm only mirroring[1] the tumbleweed section of the repo to begin with), should I switch to a third-party mirror, or is there someone I can help / harangue to get the public rsync server in a bit better state? I have crummy bandwidth, so I'm somewhat motivated. :) Thanks. --Danny [1] the rsync command I'm running once daily is: rsync -az --delete --delete-excluded --include 'repodata/**' --exclude 'iso/**' rsync://rsync.opensuse.org/opensuse-full-with-factory/opensuse/tumbleweed/ /srv/susemirror/opensuse/tumbleweed/