Unable to download list of repositories

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I wanted to add the packman repository. From the Yast repositories menu I selected

Community repositories

Next

and received the error popup

Warning

Unable to download list of repositories
or no repositories defined.

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Show

zypper lr -d

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I made it into habit opening the repo in a browser:

http://ftp.fau.de/packman/suse/openSUSE_Tumbleweed/Essentials/packman-essentials.repo

To add the repo open a root shell and copy and paste the URL into the following command:

erlangen:~ # zypper addrepo --refresh http://ftp.fau.de/packman/suse/openSUSE_Tumbleweed/Essentials/packman-essentials.repo
Adding repository 'Packman Essentials repository (openSUSE_Tumbleweed)' ...............................................................................................................................................................[done]
Repository 'Packman Essentials repository (openSUSE_Tumbleweed)' successfully added

URI         : http://packman.inode.at/suse/openSUSE_Tumbleweed/Essentials
Enabled     : Yes                                                        
GPG Check   : Yes                                                        
Autorefresh : Yes                                                        
Priority    : 99 (default priority)                                      

Repository priorities in effect:                                                                                                                                                                             (See 'zypper lr -P' for details)
      90 (raised priority)  :  1 repository  
      99 (default priority) :  5 repositories
     100 (lowered priority) :  7 repositories
erlangen:~ #
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The advantage of selecting from Community Repositories is that I don’t have to worry about the URL being different from the last time through.

BTW, I submitted a bug report and the problem has been resolved, at least as it affects me.