$releasever and $basearch not supported in .repo files about zypper

[mlandres]

$ cat /etc/zypp/repos.d/openSUSE:repo-non-oss.repo
[openSUSE:repo-non-oss]
name=repo-non-oss ($releasever)
enabled=1
autorefresh=1
baseurl=http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/$releasever/repo/non-oss
type=yast2
service=openSUSE

We support this for quite a long time. If your zypper isn't too old (before 2010), at least $basearch should work. May of course be the detection of $releasever on RHEL/Fedora systems has changed.

We're looking for the version of the 1st package providing 'redhat-release'. If the rules have changed, let me know and I'll try to fix it.

[KAMiKAZOW]

I use zypper 1.11.23 as packaged at https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/devel:cloverleaf:testing/zypper
redhat-release is provided by fedora-release and its version number is correct.

Still zypper complains about wrong URLs. Any hints what I could try or look into?

[mlandres]

zypper lr -u shows the expanded URL, so if this is wrong something broke. Logfile is
/var/log/zypper.log, in case of doubt send it to me ([email protected]) and I'll have a look at it.

[KAMiKAZOW]

zypper lr -u looks just fine. It seems that there is some issue with retrieving the GPG keys for signing but I'm not sure.

I'm sending you the log right away.

[mlandres]

2015-04-10 20:32:37 <3> ronny.linux(11246) [zypp] RepoFileReader.cc(repositories_in_stream):145 
Unknown attribute in [fedora]: metalink=https://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/metalink?repo=fedora-$releasever&arch=$basearch
ignored

This seems to be the problem. Zypper does not know the 'metalink=' tag. This would be easy to fix.

Try renaming it to mirrorlist=. If a metalink file is returned, zypper should detect and parse it. This way it worked for me.

[KAMiKAZOW]

Works better but not fully:
Error building the cache:
Url scheme is a required component
Warning: Skipping repository 'RPM Fusion for Fedora 21 - Free' because of the above error.

[mlandres]

:( The mirrorlist parser does not ignore '#'-comment lines.
There's no workaround for this. You'll need the latest libzypp (openSUSE/libzypp@7465363). It hopefully fixes also the metalink= issue.

[KAMiKAZOW]

No idea why all that messed with yum. Now I had to rename every "metalink" to "mirrorlist" again or yum bitches. Haha.
Everything (yum, dnf, zypper) seems to work now. Thanks a lot for your effort.