I did installed openSUSE 12.3 RC 2 from a USB stick for testing purposes.
Now I want to install software from the preconfigured repos (OSS and NON-OSS) and I got the following message:
Retrieving repository 'openSUSE-12.3-Non-Oss' metadata ...................................................................................................................................[error]
Repository 'openSUSE-12.3-Non-Oss' is invalid.
|] Valid metadata not found at specified URL
Please check if the URIs defined for this repository are pointing to a valid repository.
Warning: Disabling repository 'openSUSE-12.3-Non-Oss' because of the above error.
Retrieving repository 'openSUSE-12.3-Oss' metadata .......................................................................................................................................[error]
Repository 'openSUSE-12.3-Oss' is invalid.
|] Valid metadata not found at specified URL
Please check if the URIs defined for this repository are pointing to a valid repository.
Warning: Disabling repository 'openSUSE-12.3-Oss' because of the above error.
I wonder if it’s related to the fact that I installed RC2 and did not made any
zypper dup
yet or there is really a problem on the mirror repositories geographically near to me.
Is there anybody with this problem?
Is there any procedure to upgrade from 12.3 rc2 to 12.3 factory/final version?
On 03/22/2013 05:56 PM, altmas5 wrote:
>
> Thanks for the reply.
welcome! fyi, probably (if you want to) in a day or week you can
change it back to the original, and it will ok again…
the reason is that the software.opensuse.org address goes directly to
a redirector (named mirrorbrain) which is supposed to be smart enough
to direct your request to a nearby, fully functional, and up-to-date
mirror…but, sometimes things go sideways…maybe a server was
working great last time the the re-director self-tested it, then five
minutes ago the server went on lunch break just as you tried to use it…
happens…eventually the mirrorbrain will see the problem at the
server and take it off the list of good servers…
> the reason is that the software.opensuse.org address goes directly to a
> redirector (named mirrorbrain) which is supposed to be smart enough to
> direct your request to a nearby, fully functional, and up-to-date
> mirror…but, sometimes things go sideways…maybe a server was
> working great last time the the re-director self-tested it, then five
> minutes ago the server went on lunch break just as you tried to use it…
>
> happens…eventually the mirrorbrain will see the problem at the server
> and take it off the list of good servers…
There is also a feature that has been silently removed.
A few years back, yast and zypper used the redirector to get the address
of several mirrors for the same package, downloading from several
sources simultaneously, automatically ignoring those that did not
respond. It was not the default behaviour, then it was, then I believe
has been removed.
That is, it used metalink technology, via aria2c.
One benefit was bypassing bad mirrors - but it did not always work.
Or something of the sort, I’m writing from memory. I can’t find my notes
on it.
–
Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 12.1 x86_64 “Asparagus” at Telcontar)
On 2013-03-23 01:43, Carlos E. R. wrote:
> On 2013-03-23 01:06, dd wrote:
> One benefit was bypassing bad mirrors - but it did not always work.
>
>
>
> Or something of the sort, I’m writing from memory. I can’t find my notes
> on it.
I found a reference. It was enabled with this:
export ZYPP_ARIA2C=1
I don’t know if it still works. This was used in 2009.
–
Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 12.1 x86_64 “Asparagus” at Telcontar)
I am trying to use the ZYPP_ARIA2C feature but is not working as a workaround for the frequently corruption in repos.
Right now I am getting to many problems with mirrors geographical near to me and my job is affected in a lot of ways
I am getting this kind of messages:
Valid metadata not found at specified URL
Digest verification failed
Package foo seems to be corrupted during transfer
Which would be the procedure for comparing the mirrors package against the real download.opensuse.org? I Try to download packages and make a checksum but mirrorbrain always redirect me to the mirror.
> Hi again Robin,
>
> I am trying to use the ZYPP_ARIA2C feature but is not working as a
> workaround for the frequently corruption in repos.
> Right now I am getting to many problems with mirrors geographical near
> to me and my job is affected in a lot of ways
> I am getting this kind of messages:
>
> - Valid metadata not found at specified URL
> - Digest verification failed
> - Package foo seems to be corrupted during transfer
>
>
> Which would be the procedure for comparing the mirrors package against
> the real download.opensuse.org? I Try to download packages and make a
> checksum but mirrorbrain always redirect me to the mirror.
IF there are so many problem, you would have to report to the people
responsible for the infrastructure so that they check if the problems
are real, ie, if these mirrors are serving corrupted packages, so that
they talk with the people responsible and the issue is corrected, or
those mirrors are removed from the lists.
