Cannot retrieve repository metadata (repomd.xml) for repository: netlabs-rel.

[David McKenna]

The past few days I've been getting this error in ANPM:

Cannot retrieve repository metadata (repomd.xml) for repository: netlabs-rel. Please verify its path and try again.

Is there a server problem? Netlabs-exp works fine...

[Silvan Scherrer]

yes there is a server problem atm

[David McKenna]

It looks like the ​http://rpm.netlabs.org/release/00/i386/repodata directory does not contain a file 'repomd.xml' (or any subdirectory of /release/00).

[Dave Yeo]

Hasn't the i386 been depreciated in favour of i686 due to the i386 not supporting atomic operations?

[Lewis Rosenthal]

It has, Dave, but the repository structure has remained intact.

In the interim, I've built the metadata on my mirror (I usually just download it during the sync), and I've scheduled a cron job to keep it updated (which took a bit of work - separate ticket to open for failure with createrepo to create .olddata directory).

The thing to do is to ensure that in the netlabs-rel.repo, the second url is listed for the mirror directly under the main url (start the line with a <tab>):

https://www.2rosenthals.com/rpm.netlabs.org/release/$releasever/$basearch/

I'll update the wiki soon to adjust some things related to the mirror info, which I see has become somewhat out of date.

[David McKenna]

Lewis,

I do have your 2rosenthals site listed in my netlabs-rel file. I just tried to run ANPM and it seems to be working correctly now... thanks for your intervention!

Regards

[Silvan Scherrer]

Netlabs works again. We are sorry about the problems. A wrong rpm was the cause of the broken repo. Createrepo crashed and we first thought of different causes until we found the real cause. So that's why it took a bit longer.

Many thanks to Adrian from Netlabs who was of a big help even he is on vacation and many thanks to bww bitwise works GmbH in trying to find the real cause.