non-oss repo "File '/repodata/repomd.xml' not found on medium"

English Install/Boot/Login
1

Hi

Not sure if this is the correct forum, but it looks as though the non-oss repo does not have a folder “repodata” in it’s “suse” folder

I had to modify my /etc/zypp/repos.d/repo-oss.repo file the other week, to add a /suse/ to the end of the repo path

baseurl=http://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/repo/oss/suse/

but doing the same with the also not-working repo-non-oss.repo file

baseurl=http://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/repo/non-oss/suse/

still gives me the error that repodata/repomd.xml is not found

Using a web browser and browsing - what else? - those folders shows that there is an

 http://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/repo/oss/suse/repodata/repomd.xml

but that repodata/repomd.xml structure does not exist for the non-oss repo

Am I missing something obvious, or an announcement, or is the non-oss repo broken?

The files and other packages appear to be there.

Thanks

2

Hi
You need to remove the suse/ bit, the Tumbleweed repositories are not repositories, they are install media and have no repodata. If you get an error on refresh, generally it’s a mirror not fully synced, or a new snapshot being uploaded or even being redirected to a faulty mirror in your locale.

When this happens you need to add some verbosity to zypper with the -v option, the more v’s the more detail eg -vvvv


zypper -vv ref -r 7

Verbosity: 2
Initializing Target
Specified repositories: repo-non-oss 
Checking whether to refresh metadata for openSUSE-Tumbleweed-Non-Oss
Retrieving: http://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/repo/non-oss/content ........................................................................................[done]
Retrieving: http://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/repo/non-oss/media.1/media ..................................................................................[done]
Repository 'openSUSE-Tumbleweed-Non-Oss' is up to date.                                                                                                                
Specified repositories have been refreshed.

See how it looks at two different places… in this case it’s working fine here, so fix the url and try another ref.

3

Thanks for the reply.

I had tried both without the /suse/ and with.

I’ve now got a baseurl of

baseurl=http://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/repo/non-oss/

and get:

Checking whether to refresh metadata for openSUSE-Tumbleweed-Non-Oss
Retrieving: http://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/repo/non-oss/repodata/repomd.xml ............................[not found]
File '/repodata/repomd.xml' not found on medium 'http://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/repo/non-oss/'

Abort, retry, ignore? [a/r/i/...? shows all options] (a):

Aha!
And I have just found the answer

My repo file had

type=rpm-md

I commented that line out, and did a refresh, and that line is now

type=yast2

and it successfully refreshes

Thanks for your hint, it made me read the while repo file, not just the base url bit.

4

I had the same problem as OP, where ‘repodata/repomd.xml’ was not found. I also commented out type=rpm-md on both oss and non-oss repos in Tumbleweed, and Only one of them (oss) has removed the commented type=rpm-md line and replaced it with type=yast2. The other repo (non-oss), still has the commented out type=rpm-md line.

The strange thing is, they both successfully refresh now and I can update my packages. I had a hard time finding this answer, and have not been able to find any others related to it. Can someone more experienced with Tumbleweed enlighten me on what the issue here is? What’s wrong with rpm-md, and why switch to yast2? Why did it only do it to one of the repos that was failing instead of both?

Is this a safe solution, or is it a work around?