Volker Kuhlmann wrote:
1) zypper ar -c adds repo instead of checking URL. #507736
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=507736#c1 : Well, the neither the man page nor the help text is very verbose about this, but it actually means "check whether there's a valid repo at that url when adding it with addrepo". Without this option, the repo is alway added (without checking), and you only see an eventual error if you refresh the repo. So this is actually not a bug, but i will improve the man page and help text, so that it's obvious. --------- as for the alias/name vs. name/description stuff, Duncan already explained, but i should probably mention these in the vocabulary section of the zypper man page as well. Something like: Alias A short string that uniquely identifies a repository. Can be used in commands and options that need a repository specified. The alias is usually not visible in graphical package managers like YaST Software Management. That's also why the aliases set by such applications are not very meaningful. Use 'zypper nr' to change them to something more pleasant to work with in zypper such case. Name A descriptive name of the repository. -- cheers, jano Ján Kupec YaST team ---------------------------------------------------------(PGP)--- Key ID: 637EE901 Fingerprint: 93B9 C79B 2D20 51C3 800B E09B 8048 46A6 637E E901 ---------------------------------------------------------(IRC)--- Server: irc.freenode.net Nick: jniq Channels: #zypp #yast #suse #susecz ---------------------------------------------------------(EOF)---