[packman] packman.inode.at repo unreachable

[Koko Wijatmoko]

On Fri, 12 Jun 2015 14:12:29 +0200
"Carlos E. R." <carlos.e.r at opensuse.org> wrote:

> On 2015-06-12 13:46, Carlos E. R. wrote:
> > On 2015-06-12 13:26, Marc Schiffbauer wrote:
> >> Is it possible to add more than one server to the .repo files?
> > 
> > There are some undocumented features on zypper that might help:
> > 
> >   #baseurl=http://direct/url/to/specific/site
> >   mirrorlist=url://server/path/to/mirrorlist.file
> > 
> > <http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse/2014-10/msg00096.html>
> > 
> > That's all I know about it. I don't know the syntax for the
> > mirrorlist.file, or if it can be a local file. I would prefer a list
> > of mirrors directly in the repo file. Or a failover mechanism.
> 
> I just tried this.
> 
> In the packman .repo file, I wrote:
> 
> #baseurl=http://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/linux/packman/suse/openSUSE_13.1/
> mirrorlist=file:///etc/zypp/repos.d/packmanmirrorlist.file
> 
> 
> And I created "/etc/zypp/repos.d/packmanmirrorlist.file":
> 
> http://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/linux/packman/suse/openSUSE_13.1/
> http://mirror.karneval.cz/pub/linux/packman/suse/openSUSE_13.1/
> 
> 
> Then tried:
> 
> 
> Telcontar:~ # zypper --verbose ref EXT_Packman
> Verbosity: 1
> Non-option program arguments: 'EXT_Packman' 
> Initializing Target
> Specified repositories: EXT_Packman 
> Checking whether to refresh metadata for EXT: Packman Repository
> Error retrieving metadata for 'EXT: Packman Repository':
> Url scheme requires path name
> Skipping repository 'EXT: Packman Repository' because of the above
> error. Could not refresh the repositories because of errors.
> Telcontar:~ # 
> 
> 
> Ideas?
> 
https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Standards_RepoInfo

"Instead of yum's mirrorlist plaintext file, the next
release of libzypp will use Metalinks for failover
handling of URLs. (details ...) "