warning: You must fetch channel information to acquire needed filelists.

[Peter B. West]

Pascal Bleser wrote:
> Peter B. West wrote:
>> I'm on SuSE 10.2, and have been using smart for my updates all along. I
>> don't know whether there was a recent upgrade of smart.
> 
>> How do I "fetch channel information"?
> 
> smart update
> 
> That error message could come from adding a repository with a wrong URL.
> As the metadata for that repository could never be fetched (because of
> the wrong URL) and can never possibly be retrieved by "smart update",
> smart will always complain like that.
> 
> Invoke "smart update" (as root) from a shell and see what broken
> repository URL smart complains about.
> Then either fix the URL, set the repository as disabled, or remove the
> repository altogether.
> 
> cheers

Thanks Pascal.  It's the mozilla repository.

ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/mozilla/10.2 fails.

Peter
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