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Is anyone else having issues with the KDE4 community repo

I tried a refresh but got this:

File ‘/repodata/repomd.xml’ not found on medium ‘http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/KDE%3A/KDE4%3A/Community/openSUSE_11.2_KDE_Distro_Factory’

Notice the “KDE%3a”? Suppose to be “KDE:”

I then deleted the repo and added it again and now I get this:

Repository ‘KDE4-Community1’ is invalid.
|] Repository type can’t be determined.
Please check if the URIs defined for this repository are pointing to a valid repository.
Skipping repository ‘KDE4-Community1’ because of the above error.

Funny thing is called it “KDE4-Community” and not “KDE4-Community1”.

For you reference here’s my repo setup:

#  | Alias                               | Name                                    | Enabled | Refresh | Priority | Type   | URI                                                                                             | Service
---+-------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------+---------+---------+----------+--------+-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+--------
1  | Education                           | Education                               | Yes     | Yes     |  110     | rpm-md | [Index of /repositories/Education/openSUSE_11.2](http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/Education/openSUSE_11.2)                               |        
2  | KDE4-Community1                     | KDE4-Community1                         | Yes     | Yes     |   99     | NONE   | http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/KDE:/KDE4:/Community/openSUSE_11.2_KDE_Distro_Factory |        
3  | KDE4-Core                           | KDE4-Core                               | Yes     | Yes     |   99     | rpm-md | [Index of /repositories/KDE:/Distro:/Factory/openSUSE_11.2](http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/KDE:/KDE4:/Factory:/Desktop/openSUSE_11.2)             |        
4  | download.nvidia.com-opensuse        | nvidia                                  | Yes     | Yes     |   90     | rpm-md | ftp://download.nvidia.com/opensuse/11.2/                                                        |        
5  | download.opensuse.org-Wine          | openSUSE BuildService - Wine CVS Builds | Yes     | Yes     |   99     | rpm-md | [Index of /repositories/Emulators:/Wine/openSUSE_11.2](http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/Emulators:/Wine/openSUSE_11.2/)                        |        
6  | download.opensuse.org-games         | openSUSE BuildService - Games           | Yes     | Yes     |  110     | rpm-md | [Index of /repositories/games/openSUSE_11.2](http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/games/openSUSE_11.2/)                                  |        
7  | download.opensuse.org-mozilla       | openSUSE BuildService - Mozilla         | Yes     | Yes     |   99     | rpm-md | [Index of /repositories/mozilla/openSUSE_11.2](http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/mozilla/openSUSE_11.2/)                                |        
8  | ftp.skynet.be-suse                  | Packman Repository                      | Yes     | Yes     |   90     | rpm-md | [Index of /pub/packman/suse/11.2](http://ftp.skynet.be/pub/packman/suse/11.2/)                                                     |        
9  | google                              | google                                  | Yes     | Yes     |   99     | rpm-md | http://dl.google.com/linux/rpm/stable/i386                                                      |        
10 | google-chrome                       | google-chrome                           | Yes     | Yes     |   99     | rpm-md | http://dl.google.com/linux/rpm/stable/x86_64                                                    |        
11 | google64                            | google64                                | Yes     | Yes     |   99     | rpm-md | http://dl.google.com/linux/rpm/stable/x86_64                                                    |        
12 | http-download.opensuse.org-dd34691a | Updates for openSUSE 11.2-0             | Yes     | Yes     |   99     | rpm-md | [Index of /update/11.2](http://download.opensuse.org/update/11.2/)                                                       |        
13 | repo-debug                          | openSUSE-11.2-Debug                     | No      | Yes     |   99     | NONE   | [Index of /debug/distribution/11.2/repo/oss](http://download.opensuse.org/debug/distribution/11.2/repo/oss/)                                  |        
14 | repo-non-oss                        | openSUSE-11.2-Non-Oss                   | Yes     | Yes     |   99     | yast2  | [Index of /distribution/11.2/repo/non-oss](http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/11.2/repo/non-oss/)                                    |        
15 | repo-oss                            | openSUSE-11.2-Oss                       | Yes     | Yes     |   99     | yast2  | [Index of /distribution/11.2/repo/oss](http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/11.2/repo/oss/)                                        |        
16 | repo-source                         | openSUSE-11.2-Source                    | No      | Yes     |   99     | NONE   | [Index of /source/distribution/11.2/repo/oss](http://download.opensuse.org/source/distribution/11.2/repo/oss/)                                 |
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The Community repository no longer exists because it contained both KDE3 and KDE4 programs. These are now available in the separate KDE3 and KDE4 repos. See KDE repositories - openSUSE for the repos to use for KDE4.
So delete it from your list to prevent error messages.

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So you’re saying the community was replaced with the Extra repo? That means Yast is messed up as well. I tried to add the community repo using yast and it choked.

4

No. What was in the community repo has now been moved to different KDE3 and KDE4 repos. Of course it choked; it doesn’t exist. Delete any reference to the community repo.

5

Let me post the announcement info:

You are receiving this mail because you are set as a maintainer or bugowner
for the KDE:Community repository or a package present there. Any possible
discussion should happen on the opensuse-kde@opensuse.org mailing list.

To finish the reorganization and cleanup of the KDE repositories, the
KDE:Community repository will be either renamed or removed (after a grace
period). The reasons for this are:

  • KDE:Community contains software based on KDE3. Since openSUSE distribution
    no longer supports KDE3 and the KDE:KDE3 repository is poorly maintained, it
    is assumed that the majority of packages in KDE:Community is in a similar
    situation. For the KDE3 parts that are still maintained it would make sense
    to consolidate this effort only in one repository.
  • The naming of KDE:Community is based on the obsolete notion of community
    and “non-community” packages, which no longer applies to openSUSE, thus the
    name of the repository is obsolete and pointless.

There are roughly these options:

  • You maintain a package in KDE:Community which is not KDE3/Qt3-based and you
    wish to continue maintaining this package - please move the package to a more
    appropriate repository (such as the KDE:Extra repository, see
    openSUSE:KDE Extra repository - openSUSE).
  • You maintain a package in KDE:Community which is KDE3/Qt3 based and you wish
    to continue maintaining this package - please move the package to the
    KDE:KDE3 repository. You can ask for the opensuse-kde mailing list for any
    help such as getting maintainer rights for a package there (or even the whole
    repository if you are willing to help maintaining it, see
    KDE3 - openSUSE).
  • You don’t care - just leave it as it is, the package will be eventually
    removed together with the repository.
  • Some other option - use the opensuse-kde mailing list for discussion.

–
Lubos Lunak
openSUSE Boosters team, KDE developer