Hello, i am new to Open Suse.
And i would like to know, if there is some kind of policy. That says how often we are allowed to use, the # zypper --refresh
Can we use it once in 24 hours?
Or can we use the refresh command multiple times per day?
Kind Regards.
Standard repos are configured to auto-refresh when various zypper or yast operations are performed, updating or installing in particular. There’s not many reasons to manually refresh unless you have repos you often use configured to not auto-refresh. OTOH, there’s no reason you can’t do it any time you wish, but it is nice to the mirrors to only refresh when there’s a specific need.
Default configuration is ‘repo.refresh.delay = 10’ in file /etc/zypp/zypp.conf. Enable autorefresh for all repos using ‘zypper modifyrepo --refresh your-repo’. When invoking zypper the repos will be checked for updates if more than 10 minutes elapsed since last invocation:
**erlangen:~ #** zypper lr -uEP
# | Alias | Name | Enabled | GPG Check | **Refresh** | Priority | URI
---+---------------------+------------------------------------------+---------+-----------+---------+----------+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
13 | packman | Packman repository (openSUSE_Tumbleweed) | Yes | (r ) Yes | **Yes** | 90 | http://packman.inode.at/suse/openSUSE_Tumbleweed
11 | openSUSE-20191106-0 | openSUSE-Tumbleweed-Oss | Yes | (r ) Yes | Yes | 99 | http://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/repo/oss/
16 | repo-non-oss | openSUSE-Tumbleweed-Non-Oss | Yes | (r ) Yes | Yes | 99 | http://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/repo/non-oss/
18 | repo-update | openSUSE-Tumbleweed-Update | Yes | (r ) Yes | Yes | 99 | http://download.opensuse.org/update/tumbleweed/
1 | Application_Geo | Application_Geo | Yes | (r ) Yes | Yes | 100 | http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/Application:/Geo/openSUSE_Tumbleweed/
3 | BellSoft | BellSoft Repository | Yes | (r ) Yes | Yes | 100 | http://yum.bell-sw.com/
6 | chrome | chrome | Yes | (r ) Yes | Yes | 100 | http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/rpm/stable/x86_64
9 | jalbum | jalbum | Yes | ( ) No | Yes | 100 | http://jalbum.net/download/software/yumrepo/
10 | myrepo | myrepo | Yes | ( ) No | Yes | 100 | dir:/home/karl/Downloads/myrepo
**erlangen:~ #**
Stale repos can cause errors. If you are encountering issues use ‘zypper clean --all’. This will delete all cached data. ‘zypper refresh’ will refill data caches.