* Danny Sauer
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. :)
alter your /etc/zypp/repos.d/<Tumbleweed OSS> repo to contain: baseurl=http://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/repo/oss/ http://ftp.ussg.iu.edu/linux/opensuse/tumbleweed/repo/oss/ http://distro.ibiblio.org/opensuse/tumbleweed/repo/oss/ http://suse.mobile-central.org/tumbleweed/repo/oss/ http://ftp.uni-erlangen.de/opensuse/tumbleweed/repo/non-oss/ http://ftp5.gwdg.de/pub/opensuse/tumbleweed/repo/oss/ zypper will try each until success or failure. it may still fail but should fail less often. aiui, http://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/repo/oss/ is redirected anyway. -- (paka)Patrick Shanahan Plainfield, Indiana, USA @ptilopteri http://en.opensuse.org openSUSE Community Member facebook/ptilopteri Registered Linux User #207535 @ http://linuxcounter.net Photos: http://wahoo.no-ip.org/piwigo paka @ IRCnet freenode -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org