Repositories is out-of-date

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1

I find a weird situation.
If I ran

@mypc:~> sudo zypper ref
Repository 'openSUSE-Tumbleweed-Non-Oss' is up to date.                                                                                             
Repository 'Open H.264 Codec (openSUSE Tumbleweed)' is up to date.                                                                                  
Repository 'openSUSE-Tumbleweed-Oss' is up to date.                                                                                                 
Repository 'openSUSE-Tumbleweed-Update' is up to date.                                                                                              
All repositories have been refreshed.

I still got all my enable repositories out-of-date.

cykuo@mypc:~> zypper pa --unneeded 
Repository 'openSUSE-Tumbleweed-Non-Oss' is out-of-date. You can run 'zypper refresh' as root to update it.
Repository 'Open H.264 Codec (openSUSE Tumbleweed)' is out-of-date. You can run 'zypper refresh' as root to update it.
Repository 'openSUSE-Tumbleweed-Oss' is out-of-date. You can run 'zypper refresh' as root to update it.
Repository 'openSUSE-Tumbleweed-Update' is out-of-date. You can run 'zypper refresh' as root to update it.
Loading repository data...
Reading installed packages...

But after waiting several minutes, all out-of-date repositories automatically becomes up-to-date without running “zypper ref”.

@mypc:~> sudo zypper pa --unneeded 
[sudo] password for root: 
Loading repository data...
Reading installed packages...

I find this happened after running YAST software management.

Any ideal how could this be happened?

2

You are running one command as sudo and the other not.

3

This zypper is run by user cykuo .

This zypper is run by user root .

@hui , sorry you were faster :wink:

4

:joy: I see. Thanks for pointing that out.

So is it normal for getting repositories out-of-date by running zypper not with root?

5

You don‘t have write permissions for the database/cache as normal user.

6

You can get expect all sorts of messages when running zypper as “normal” user.

7

No, it is not normal. My only guess is too restrictive permissions for zypper cache directories. You could check

ls -ld /var/cache/zypp
ls -lR /var/zache/zypp

Hmm … apparently something changed in Tumbleweed recently.

andrei@leap155:~> zypper pa --unneeded
Loading repository data...
Reading installed packages...

but

andrei@tumbleweed:~> zypper pa --unneeded
Repository 'openSUSE-Tumbleweed-Non-Oss (20240325)' is out-of-date. You can run 'zypper refresh' as root to update it.
Repository 'openSUSE-Tumbleweed-Oss (20240325)' is out-of-date. You can run 'zypper refresh' as root to update it.
Repository 'openSUSE-Tumbleweed-Update' is out-of-date. You can run 'zypper refresh' as root to update it.
8

There is a timer in /etc/zypp/zypp.conf:

##
## Amount of time in minutes that must pass before another refresh.
##
## Valid values: Integer
## Default value: 10
##
## If you have autorefresh enabled for a repository, it is checked for
## up-to-date metadata not more often than every <repo.refresh.delay>
## minutes. If an automatic request for refresh comes before <repo.refresh.delay>
## minutes passed since the last check, the request is ignored.
##
## A value of 0 means the repository will always be checked. To get the opposite
## effect, disable autorefresh for your repositories.
##
## This option has no effect for repositories with autorefresh disabled, nor for
## user-requested refresh.
##
repo.refresh.delay = 5
9

https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1222086

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10

Sorry, my fault.