[packman] packman.inode.at keeps giving 403 error

Sat Dec 11 17:58:24 CET 2021

On 11/12/2021 01:27, Thomas Moldt wrote:
> Am 10.12.21 um 19:31 schrieb Tejas Guruswamy:
>> On 07/10/2021 12:29, Tejas Guruswamy wrote:
>>> On 07/10/2021 03:30, Marc Schiffbauer wrote:
>>>> When you try a dedicated file (no browsing), do you still get a 
>>>> 403? If yes, I will contact them... -Marc
>>>
>>> Yes, it is a 403 using all user agents I can think off, including 
>>> ZYpp itself. I think the entire mirror really is dead.
>>>
>>>> curl 
>>> http://packman.inode.at/suse/openSUSE_Tumbleweed/Essentials/repodata/repomd.xml 
>>>
>>> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>
>>> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
>>>         "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
>>> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">
>>> <head>
>>>  <title>403 - Forbidden</title>
>>> </head>
>>> <body>
>>>  <h1>403 - Forbidden</h1>
>>> </body>
>>> </html>
>>>
>>> Related sites like mirror.inode.at are also down for a long time.
>>>
>>> T
>>
>>
>> I'm sorry to keep bringing this up but it is *still* a problem and 
>> no-one outside of the packman admins can do anything about it so all 
>> I can do is email.
>>
>> inode.at is still listed as a mirror at 
>> http://packman.links2linux.org/mirrors
>> packman.repo still refers to inode.at -- on *all* mirrors, so even if 
>> you do 'zypper ar gwdg.de/.../packman.repo' you actually get inode.at
>>
>> T
> Well, last week I managed to add the packman repository and install 
> vlc and the codecs on a newly installed Leap 15.3 as described here: 
> https://en.opensuse.org/SDB:Installing_codecs_from_Packman_repositories#Option_2:_Zypper
> I did not observe any issues.
>
> Cheers,
> Thomas

Because those instructions have been updated to specifically avoid using 
the broken mirror and packman.repo files.

T