Outdated 11.1 repository mirror

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#1

Hello,

We need to mantain a bunch of PCs running opensSUSE 11.1 for a while, some time ago we mirrored the 11.1 base and update repositories locally and it has worked fine until now.

However, a couple months ago, we have started getting this error messages:

“Warning: Repository ‘reponame’ appears to outdated. Consider using a different mirror or server.”

These warnings come up quite often either in the desktop updater applet or when we are installing new software packages, which gets a bit annoying. Is there any way we can mark our local mirror as current (“not outdated”) or get rid of these warnings?

Thanks,

Sergi

#2

that level of technical detail inside the YaST/zypper routines makes
me guess you might get a faster/better answer from the
opensuse@opensuse.org mail list, see here to join:
http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Communication_channels#Mailing_lists

or come back here until someone who knows drops in…

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#3

On 2011-03-28 11:36, sergi77 wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> We need to mantain a bunch of PCs running opensSUSE 11.1 for a while,
> some time ago we mirrored the 11.1 base and update repositories locally
> and it has worked fine until now.
>
> However, a couple months ago, we have started getting this error
> messages:
>
> “Warning: Repository ‘reponame’ appears to outdated. Consider using a
> different mirror or server.”

Curious.

> These warnings come up quite often either in the desktop updater applet
> or when we are installing new software packages, which gets a bit
> annoying. Is there any way we can mark our local mirror as current (“not
> outdated”) or get rid of these warnings?

I don’t know, but you should simply remove the applet, it serves no
purpose. You can also set those repos to not autorefresh.

You should also consider the Evergreen project: it is an experimental,
community mantained, project to produce security patches for 11.1.

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Cheers / Saludos,

Carlos E. R.
(from 11.2 x86_64 “Emerald” at Telcontar)