Repository 'update-slowroll' metadata expired

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Check /etc/zypp/repos.d for the current repository definitions. The repository prefixed with openSUSE: are automatically installed by repository service. What you can do is

  1. Copy (or rename) repository definitions starting with openSUSE: - just strip off prefix
  2. Delete openSUSE service: zypper removeservice openSUSE
  3. Remove package openSUSE-repos-Slowroll: zypper remove openSUSE-repos-Slowroll
  4. Lock it so it will not be installed: zypper addlock openSUSE-repos-Slowroll
  5. Make sure the files with prefix openSUSE: are removed from /etc/zypp/repos.d
  6. Edit copied repository definitions and replace URL in baseurl parameter. You can also list multiple URLs for redundancy.
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I had the same issue. Changing the base URL of the repos fixed it for me.

See this post, onward:

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That was a learning experience for me. Looking back at zypper’s logs now, the mirror list that zypper got from http://download.opensuse.org/update/slowroll/repo/oss?mirrorlist (below) was different from the …/repodata/?mirrorlist I posted here back on 13 Jun. At the time, I just got spooked because I had noticed that zypper was not using one of those mirrors.

2025-06-13 06:11:54 <1> persephone(4267) [zypp::media] RepoMirrorList.cc(RepoMirrorListParse):289 Parsing mirrorlist file: /var/tmp/TmpFile.Yqbz26 originally received from http://download.opensuse.org/update/slowroll/repo/oss?mirrorlist
2025-06-13 06:11:54 <1> persephone(4267) [zypp::media] RepoMirrorList.cc(detectRepoMirrorListFormat):133 Detecting RepoMirrorlist Format based on file content
2025-06-13 06:11:54 <1> persephone(4267) [zypp::media] RepoMirrorList.cc(detectRepoMirrorListFormat):162 Detected JSON, file starts with [
2025-06-13 06:11:54 <1> persephone(4267) [zypp::media] RepoMirrorList.cc(operator()):224 Trying to parse URL: http://ftp.belnet.be/mirror/ftp.opensuse.org/opensuse/update/slowroll/repo/oss/
2025-06-13 06:11:54 <1> persephone(4267) [zypp::media] RepoMirrorList.cc(operator()):224 Trying to parse URL: http://mirror.nl.leaseweb.net/opensuse/update/slowroll/repo/oss/
2025-06-13 06:11:54 <1> persephone(4267) [zypp::media] RepoMirrorList.cc(operator()):224 Trying to parse URL: http://opensuse.mirror.liteserver.nl/update/slowroll/repo/oss/
2025-06-13 06:11:54 <1> persephone(4267) [zypp::media] RepoMirrorList.cc(operator()):224 Trying to parse URL: http://opensuse.mirror.liteserver.nl/update/slowroll/repo/oss/
2025-06-13 06:11:54 <1> persephone(4267) [zypp::media] RepoMirrorList.cc(operator()):224 Trying to parse URL: http://ftp.halifax.rwth-aachen.de/opensuse/update/slowroll/repo/oss/
2025-06-13 06:11:54 <1> persephone(4267) [zypp::media] RepoMirrorList.cc(operator()):224 Trying to parse URL: http://ftp.uni-kl.de/pub/linux/opensuse/update/slowroll/repo/oss/
2025-06-13 06:11:54 <1> persephone(4267) [zypp::media] RepoMirrorList.cc(operator()):224 Trying to parse URL: http://mirror.de.leaseweb.net/opensuse/update/slowroll/repo/oss/
2025-06-13 06:11:54 <1> persephone(4267) [zypp::media] RepoMirrorList.cc(operator()):224 Trying to parse URL: http://ftp.tu-chemnitz.de/pub/linux/opensuse/update/slowroll/repo/oss/
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The upcoming change in zypper should mitigate it. It will get the metadata from the primary server only, not from some random mirror.

IMPORTANT: Action Required for zypper Repository Configuration. - openSUSE Factory - openSUSE Mailing Lists

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