On 12/12/06, mlist@safenet-inc.com
I clicked past the first one (when it failed...) before I thought to record, but here are the error dialogs from the other two:
" http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/10.2/repo/oss/ Source metadata is invalid: http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/10.2/repo/oss//suse/setup/descr/pa ckages.cs
fails checksum verification. "
Yes, that's two forward slashes between "oss" and "suse"; I don't know how significant that is.
download.opensuse.org redirects to a "real" mirror based on certain logic. Unfortunately being relatively soon after release some mirrors have still not properly synced the repository and it appears from a few reports such as yours that download.opensuse.org is sometimes redirecting to broken mirrors. This is unfortunate, and I know they are working on improving the redirector, but in practice things like this will probably always happen occasionally when you don't have control over all the mirrors. http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/10.2/repo/oss/ is the main repository of binaries. It contains more software than is included on the DVD. Sometimes "package source" is used interchangably with repository. http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/10.2/repo/src-oss/ contains the actual sources. http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/10.2/repo/non-oss/ is the repository for non-free software
The last one was....
"An error occurred while creating the installation source. Unknown source type for http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/10.2/repo/debug/
Try again?"
That debug repository is not yet available on the mirrors, hence that particular error. It is unlikely you will need it though, it provides data useful for getting useful backtraces & debugging information.
I think I've lost the ability to have the repositories for installation of additional software and such, but I don't understand what I did to cause it.
As you noted, this dialogue is new in 10.2, It merely provides a convenient way to add these repositories, to add manually post install simply go to yast -> installation sources -> add -> specify URL, and paste in the URLS _ Benjamin Weber -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org