Zypper_problems

title: zypper problems date: Wed Sep 2 10:21:53 PDT 2009 tags: opensuse, packagemanagement

I recently ran into problems with a home-made repo for OpenSuSE. (Weirdly enough, this seems to have cropped up after the repo was already in use.) When I tried to install a package from the repo, I got this error:

Retrieving repository 'foo' metadata [error]
Repository 'foo' is invalid.
File /var/tmp/TmpFile.0aLr5H doesn't contain public key data
Please check if the URIs defined for this repository are pointing to a
valid repository.
Warning: Disabling repository 'foo' because of the above error.

There wasn't much to find about this problem; even re-installing the key didn't help. Finally I thought to look in the webserver logs, where I found this:

[Wed Sep 02 09:59:59 2009] [error] [client 10.0.0.1] File
does not exist:
/var/www/repo/opensuse/11.1/x86_64/repodata/repomd.xml.key

That led to this article, and the solution was easy:

gpg -a --export "Repository Key" > /var/www/repo/opensuse/11.1/x86_64/repodata/repomd.xml.key

Sweet!

In other news: my tortilla filled with fried rice is falling apart. Film at 11.