Yast on Suse 11.1 - problem with packman

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So far I love Suse 11.1! However, today when updating some dvd
utilities, I kept getting dozens of errors from the packman repository:

Error
Download failed:
File: ‘./suse/i586/libmpeg2-0-0.5.1-0.pm.2.i586.rpm’ not found on
medium ‘http://ftp.skynet.be/pub/packman/suse/11.1/’

‘Index of /pub/packman/suse/11.1’
(http://ftp.skynet.be/pub/packman/suse/11.1/)

File ‘./suse/i586/libmpeg2-0-0.5.1-0.pm.2.i586.rpm’ not found on medium
‘http://ftp.skynet.be/pub/packman/suse/11.1/’

File ‘./suse/i586/libxvidcore4-1.2.1-0.pm.0.i586.rpm’ not found on
medium ‘http://ftp.skynet.be/pub/packman/suse/11.1/’

File ‘./suse/i586/libtwolame0-0.3.12-0.pm.1.i586.rpm’ not found on
medium ‘http://ftp.skynet.be/pub/packman/suse/11.1/’

File ‘./suse/i686/libfame1-0.9.1-0.pm.9.i686.rpm’ not found on medium
‘http://ftp.skynet.be/pub/packman/suse/11.1/’

It appears to be up. Is it just not updated yet with current packages?

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It looks like the URL has an extra ‘suse’ in there. If I go to ‘Index
of /pub/packman/suse/11.1’ (http://ftp.skynet.be/pub/packman/suse/11.1/)
, I see the i586 directory, and not a ‘suse’ directory.

Is there some path I could update to fix this?

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I think packman just isn’t up to date yet. Hopefully this will be
corrected in the next couple days.

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Isn’t anyone else seeing this problem?
I can’t seem to find where/why my package updater is inserting an extra
‘suse’ in the fetch string. My other repositories work fine.

When my updater tries to get a packman repository file, it would try to
get (ie):

‘http://ftp.skynet.be/pub/packman/suse/11.1/suse/i586/libmpeg2-0-0.5.1-0.pm.2.i586.rpm’

My packman repository URL is
“http://ftp.skynet.be/pub/packman/suse/11.1/”

For some reason, the file fetch string prepends a ‘suse’ to the front
of the path before i586. I tried using command line zypper, but that
didn’t seem to help either.

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A few minutes after my last post, I found the fix which worked for me.
I had to add a new packman repository, and delete the default one.
Steps were:

zypper addrepo --repo

http://packman.mirrors.skynet.be/pub/packman/suse/11.1/Packman.repo

Then go into the repository manager and delete the old packman
“http://ftp.skynet.be/pub/packman/suse/11.1/” repository. All is
working great now.

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