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Explain outdatedness of repos #463

Closed jengelh closed 1 year ago

jengelh commented 1 year ago

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Please have zypper explain how it came to the conclusion that a repo is outdated. In libzypp there seems to be a repositoryExpire attribute, but how is this filled and why.

mlandres commented 1 year ago

The repository metadata may define a TTL.

<suseinfo xmlns="http://linux.duke.edu/metadata/repo">
  <expire>2592000</expire>
</suseinfo>

Repos doing this promise to regenerate their metadata within the specified interval. If they don't, you may be connected to a broken mirror or the repo is discontinued.

Maybe we can rephrase the message.