Slow Roll --refresh the repos, but disable two of them?

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Considering a re-install of Slow Roll after first installation “immolated” itself a few weeks into its functional life . . . for which no clear explanation has been provided, etc. Looking at the Wiki it provides the list of repos that are to be used, after installation . . . it shows two of them with the words “disable” in front of the address??? My knowledge of command line isn’t that deep, my question, why do we include a line item, to have it be “disabled”??

After installation from DVD you need to replace Tumbleweed with Slowroll repositories. The same applies when switching from Leap or an older Tumbleweed snapshot to Slowroll.

   rm /etc/zypp/repos.d/*
   zypper ar --refresh http://cdn.opensuse.org/slowroll/repo/oss/ base-oss
   zypper ar --refresh http://cdn.opensuse.org/slowroll/repo/non-oss/ base-non-oss
   zypper ar --refresh -p 80 http://cdn.opensuse.org/update/slowroll/repo/oss/ update
   zypper ar --refresh --disable http://cdn.opensuse.org/slowroll/repo/src-oss/ base-src-oss
   zypper ar --refresh --disable https://download.opensuse.org/debug/slowroll/repo/oss/ base-oss-debug
   zypper ar --refresh http://codecs.opensuse.org/openh264/openSUSE_Tumbleweed/ h264
   zypper ar --refresh -p 70 http://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/linux/misc/packman/suse/openSUSE_Slowroll/Essentials/ packman
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Did you ever have a look at standard Leap/Tumbleweed repos? Debug and source repos are added but disabled by default so that you easily can enable them when needed…

This is the same since ages…
Maybe also have a read here:
https://en.opensuse.org/Package_repositories

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OK, thanks for the reply . . . to answer your question, no, I don’t spend a lot of time studying my repos . . . other stuff going on as of late.

I just notice when I select a system to log into and instead of going to a nice GUI, it goes to a “dracut emergency shell” . . . a shell that doesn’t actually “do” anything to help revive the system . . . meaning that it self-destructed via zypper dup??? Then I think, briefly, “What happened to Slow Roll??”

And then I wonder for a little bit more of my time, if it’s worth my time to reinstall it . . . lastly I wonder about including a “disable” command, when possibly the repos will again be changed to something else in a few days (weeks)???

But, thanks for the link to the repo Wiki, good to see what they would look like in the ideal . . . . : - )