Update error

**fuerstu** · 27-Feb-2021, 19:39

I have a strange update error today: "Permission to access 'http://packman.inode.at/suse/openSUSE_Leap_15.2/repodata/respomd.xml' denied"
I looked for other packman URLs but had already problems finding them on the openSUSE website. Finally I found one musing startpage: https://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/linux/misc/packman/suse/openSUSE_Leap_$releasever/Essentials' with the error message 404 Not Found. So I have 2 questions:
Why did the updates work and they are now suddenly denied?
Where is a link on the openSUSE site for packman repos (different than the two not working)?
Regards
Uli

**malcolmlewis** · 27-Feb-2021, 19:46

Originally Posted by fuerstu

I have a strange update error today: "Permission to access 'http://packman.inode.at/suse/openSUSE_Leap_15.2/repodata/respomd.xml' denied"
I looked for other packman URLs but had already problems finding them on the openSUSE website. Finally I found one musing startpage: https://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/linux/misc/packman/suse/openSUSE_Leap_$releasever/Essentials' with the error message 404 Not Found. So I have 2 questions:
Why did the updates work and they are now suddenly denied?
Where is a link on the openSUSE site for packman repos (different than the two not working)?
Regards
Uli

Hi
Did you see the announcement about packman moving today?
https://forums.opensuse.org/showthre...-future-again-)

See http://packman.links2linux.org/mirrors

**fuerstu** · 27-Feb-2021, 20:07

Thank you, malcolmlewis, I didn't get this announcement. This is probably the reason as well why my Tumbleweed machine reported 48 update errors and wanted to switch packages to opnSUSE repos. I postponed the update....
So I presume it will be up again tomorrow. Nevertheless the packman mirror list should be on the openSUSE website or is it just hidden there?

**malcolmlewis** · 27-Feb-2021, 20:17

Originally Posted by fuerstu

Thank you, malcolmlewis, I didn't get this announcement. This is probably the reason as well why my Tumbleweed machine reported 48 update errors and wanted to switch packages to opnSUSE repos. I postponed the update....
So I presume it will be up again tomorrow. Nevertheless the packman mirror list should be on the openSUSE website or is it just hidden there?

Hi
Not really it's a third party provider and due to the nature of the packages rebuilt there it requires separation

**eionmac** · 28-Feb-2021, 02:36

20210228 09.36 GMT
1. I understand packman repository is "moving". But update in YaST fails as noted.
2. For the ignorant.
How do I point my YaST repository at the correct place for Packman updates? for LEAP 15.2 .

Please detail for the totally ignorant, because i usually just point to community and packman.
Please detail exactly how to solve this problem.

3 A reference to a mirror does not mean anything to me.

4, Has change been done yet?

Sorry to be ignorant, but some of us are just users.

**Sauerland** · 28-Feb-2021, 02:48

Disable the Packman Repo:

Code:

zypper mr -d -F http://packman.inode.at/suse/openSUSE_Leap_15.2/

Add an mirror:

Code:

zypper ar -f -p 20 https://ftp.halifax.rwth-aachen.de/packman/suse/openSUSE_Leap_15.2/ packman-rwth

**eionmac** · 28-Feb-2021, 03:11

20210228 10.07 GMT thanks for your very speedy response.

Originally Posted by Sauerland

Disable the Packman Repo:

Code:

zypper mr -d -F http://packman.inode.at/suse/openSUSE_Leap_15.2/

Add an mirror:

Code:

zypper ar -f -p 20 https://ftp.halifax.rwth-aachen.de/packman/suse/openSUSE_Leap_15.2/ packman-rwth

I do not use Zypper ,, but update through YaST.
I have disabled the packman.inode.at/suse/openSUSE_Leap15.2. in YaST.

I have pointed YaST repository to URL (the first one in list of mirrors in Germany given in another answer, to same problem)
http://packman.jacobs-university.de/...USE_Leap_15.2/

I have enabled this repository with priority 90

Is this sufficient or should I change to Aachen mirror ? and if so how?

You are teaching new things to a very old dog with little command line experience. (YaST since SuSE 9)
Thank for your help in advance.

**Sauerland** · 28-Feb-2021, 03:27

I have used zypper because its easier to get it working as saying klick here, klick there, use this URL.......

zypper and Yast-Software Repositories are doing the same, so its your turn......

Use the mirror you think, I use this mirror.

**eionmac** · 28-Feb-2021, 05:45

Originally Posted by Sauerland

I have used zypper because its easier to get it working as saying klick here, klick there, use this URL.......

zypper and Yast-Software Repositories are doing the same, so its your turn......

Use the mirror you think, I use this mirror.

Thank you for your help.
I understand zipper CLI way, but I cannot teach this to other folk (mostly 70 age and above) as they only use GUI ways.

Why I was intrigued is your link went to a "https://ftp" site while I note in YaST the sites are only "http://".

Is it safer to switch to the site you show, do they have a https:// site link for html or only https://ftp site? AND
will a ftp site work inside YaST?

Answers will help me teach others I have put on openSUSE Leap 15.2 (or rather LEAP 15.0, then 15.1 and currently 15.2)
Thanks in advance.

**hcvv** · 28-Feb-2021, 06:23

Originally Posted by eionmac

Why I was intrigued is your link went to a "https://ftp" site while I note in YaST the sites are only "http://".

I think you confused yourself. The part 'https://" defines the protocol tp be used. What comes after it 'ftp.gwdg.de' is a host-domainname and the 'ftp' is the hostname there. That can be anything (well, there is a restricted character set). They could have called it blababla.gwdg.de, but they choose ftp.gwdg.de. (probably because the system also provides ftp:// protocol or did that earlier, but that is only my guess).

Zypper/YaST supports http as well as https protocol (and more).