Automated update checks fail if mirror not reachable or blocked due to company policy

[manfredw]

Automated update checks fail if mirror not reachable or blocked due to company policy

[andrii-suse]

For this specific problem you can add ?AVOID_COUNTRY=ru to urls in /etc/zypp/repos.d/*.repo files.
So corresponding line in .repo file will look something like:
baseurl=https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/server:/monitoring/15.4/?AVOID_COUNTRY=ru

Unfortunately I don't have easier solution at the moment, but let me know if such workaround is possible for you.

[manfredw]

Thx, I will try it. :-)

Is this a documented parameter?
Are there multiple values allowed? (separator?)

But as you said this is only a workaround.
I would prefer a positive logic like PREFER_COUNTRY or PREFER_REGION to avoid the maintenance of a blacklist...

[andrii-suse]

Unfortunately no much documentation atm besides unit tests, e.g.

MirrorCache/t/environ/03-geo.sh

Line 71 in 863fb70

echo test get parameter AVOID_COUNTRY

Separator is coma (see example below)

COUNTRY and REGION are detected automatically, and they are preffered when possible, you can check that such detection works properly using route /rest/myip , e.g.:

curl download.opensuse.org/rest/myip

If that info in output of that command is incorrect - you can add REGION and COUNTRY the same way to url. So it will try to find the closest mirror. You might try combining these variables like

?REGION=eu&COUNTRY=be&AVOID_COUNTRY=de,ru