OpenSuSE repository is broken, please fix....

[sergey1369]

When adding URL
http://download.videolan.org/pub/videol ... SuSE/10.2/
to Yast2 the following message is displayed....

http://download.videolan.org/pub/videol ... SuSE/10.2/
Unknown Error: Downloading metadata failed (is YUM source?) or user did not accept remote source. Aborting refresh.

[dimstar]

It seems unfortunately, you're more hitting a bug in openSUSE 10.2 than in our repository.

Please also compare to the Novell Bugtracker: https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=226084 (here, somebody explains the exact same error with an official openSUSE Update repo).

You can try the following things:
Replace the url with:
ftp://download.videolan.org/pub/videola ... SuSE/10.2/

or try with

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su - rug sa -t zypp http://download.videolan.org/pub/videolan/vlc/0.8.6/SuSE/10.2/ vlc

Alternative, if you decided to use the openSUSE package management instead of the enterprise package manager, you could need to try:

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su - zypper sa -t zypp http://download.videolan.org/pub/videolan/vlc/0.8.6/SuSE/10.2/ vlc

I hope this helps... keep us informed on this,

Dominique

[sergey1369]

I've just added same URL in yast2 one more time and this time it was successful. (Just warning about missing signature on repomd.xml).

Thank you for help, Sergey.

[dimstar]

Yes, there was a problem about the signature file.

As a short term solution, we removed the sig this afternoon )that's why you were able to add it) and we just added the signature again now.

So: now everybody should be able to use the repos again.. yast, rug and zypper, including a valid signature.