Hello, I got the following message doing zypper up: Warning: Repository ‘openSUSE-12.3-Update-Non-Oss’ appears to outdated. Consider using a different mirror or server. Any idea or suggestions? Thank you
I’ve run into this myself. I’m not sure what’s behind it, but for now I’m just using one of the mirrors.
Hello chief_sealth, Thanks for the link. I did try switching to the URLs of both the Univ. of Utah and the Univ. of Waterloo Computer Science Clubs via YAST, but the warning message remains. I will ignore it for now, as openSUSE 13.1 is on the horizon.
I’m reporting this on the bug tracker. I’m sure it will be fixed soon, anyway.
On 2013-09-14 21:56, chief sealth wrote:
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> I’m reporting this on the bug tracker. I’m sure it will be fixed soon,
> anyway.
>
> https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=840410
Gentlemen, this is a non issue 
There are no updates on the non-oss repo, simply because there are none. Thus zypper warns that
there are no updates. The warning should be disabled for the repo, but there is no way we can do that.
Remember: proprietary software do less updates.
This issue is new now that the non-oss update repo is separated from the oss repo.
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from oS 12.3 “Dartmouth” GM (rescate 1))
They’ve been separated for some time, but I haven’t seen this warning before this week. Not the first time there haven’t been non-oss updates. Besides, why would it only warn fot the non-oss and not the oss?
On 2013-09-15 00:56, chief sealth wrote:
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> They’ve been separated for some time, but I haven’t seen this warning
> before this week. Not the first time there haven’t been non-oss updates.
> Besides, why would it only warn fot the non-oss and not the oss?
Because the OSS does have recent updates. The non-oss/x86_64 last update was mid-August. Now is
mid-September: two months, timeout! Warning! Danger!
X-)
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from oS 12.3 “Dartmouth” GM (rescate 1))
On 09/14/2013 07:18 PM, Carlos E. R. pecked at the keyboard and wrote:
> On 2013-09-15 00:56, chief sealth wrote:
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>> They’ve been separated for some time, but I haven’t seen this warning
>> before this week. Not the first time there haven’t been non-oss updates.
>> Besides, why would it only warn fot the non-oss and not the oss?
> Because the OSS does have recent updates. The non-oss/x86_64 last update was mid-August. Now is
> mid-September: two months, timeout! Warning! Danger!
>
> X-)
>
That would be one month not two.
On 2013-09-15 03:00, Ken Schneider wrote:
> That would be one month not two.
Oops. O:-)
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 12.3 x86_64 “Dartmouth” at Telcontar)
It may well be that there are no updates scheduled for/available in the non-oss repository, but this doesn’t reflect reality. Adobe has released an update for their Flash Player to version 11.2.202.310 appr. a week ago. Not that I like using flash, but unfortunately a lot of sites out there in the Internet still require it and I’d therefore prefer to get such updates in time, even for proprietary software. FWIW, other distributions have already published corresponding updates.
I saw this warning several months ago.
Then there was a flash update, and the warning went away.
As others have said, just ignore it.
Right. And the mentioned flash-player update is already in the queue, so this message should disappear in a few days anyway.
See [Bug 840410] zypper is complaining that the non-oss update repos are out](http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-bugs/2013-09/msg01384.html) :
— Comment #11 from Benjamin Brunner <bbrunner@xxxxxxxx> 2013-09-16 16:42:44
CEST —
We are already preparing an flash-player update. After it’s released, this
issue is resolved.
On 2013-09-16 18:15, mhnovell wrote:
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> It may well be that there are no updates scheduled for/available in the
> non-oss repository, but this doesn’t reflect reality. Adobe has released
> an update for their Flash Player to version 11.2.202.310 appr. a week
> ago. Not that I like using flash, but unfortunately a lot of sites out
> there in the Internet still require it and I’d therefore prefer to get
> such updates in time, even for proprietary software. FWIW, other
> distributions have already published corresponding updates.
You may ask about the delay in the security mail list.
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 12.3 x86_64 “Dartmouth” at Telcontar)
Well, that flash-player update has been released today, and the zypper warning has disappeared as well for me, as expected… 