[FC] repo configurations not showing or offering latest available

[Felix Miata]

http://silk.apana.org.au/fc2development.php ostensibly lists latest available
versions. They seem to match up with http://silk.apana.org.au/pub/fcl/nightly/ .
If I try to upgrade to latest using configured repos as directed on the page,
only older versions are shown, not the latest. e.g. I was able to fetch http://silk.apana.org.au/pub/fcl/nightly/filecommander-2.50-vgit_1847_opensuse15.x86_64.rpm
and install on one Leap installation without any configured repo, but on another
I configured the repo, and only up to 1829 is shown by package management. The
latest installed on it, is listed by package management:
# cat /etc/zypp/repos.d/FCL-leap.repo
[FCL-leap]
autorefresh=0
baseurl=http://silk.apana.org.au/rpm-opensuse15-unstable-dev
enabled=1
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=http://silk.apana.org.au/debian/fc.public.key
name=FCL-leap
# zypper se -sx filecommander
Loading repository data...
Reading installed packages...

S | Name | Type | Version | Arch | Repository
---+---------------+---------+---------------------------+--------+------------------
i+ | filecommander | package | 2.50-vgit_1829_opensuse15 | x86_64 | (System Packages)
v | filecommander | package | 2.50-vgit_1821_opensuse15 | x86_64 | FCL-leap
v | filecommander | package | 2.50-vgit_1820_opensuse15 | x86_64 | FCL-leap
v | filecommander | package | 2.50-vgit_1817_opensuse15 | x86_64 | FCL-leap
v | filecommander | package | 2.50-vgit_1812_opensuse15 | x86_64 | FCL-leap
v | filecommander | package | 2.50-vgit_1802_opensuse15 | x86_64 | FCL-leap
v | filecommander | package | 2.50-vgit_1801_opensuse15 | x86_64 | FCL-leap
v | filecommander | package | 2.50-vgit_1800_opensuse15 | x86_64 | FCL-leap
v | filecommander | package | 2.50-vgit_1797_opensuse15 | x86_64 | FCL-leap
v | filecommander | package | 2.50-vgit_1793_opensuse15 | x86_64 | FCL-leap
v | filecommander | package | 2.50-vgit_1790_opensuse15 | x86_64 | FCL-leap
#

The problem is absent in Bookworm, but same as Leap in Tumbleweed. Trixie behaves
much like openSUSE:
# inxi -S
System:
Host: ab250 Kernel: 6.7.12-amd64 arch: x86_64 bits: 64
Console: pty pts/2 Distro: Debian GNU/Linux trixie/sid
# apt-cache show fileco*
Package: filecommander
Status: install ok installed
Priority: optional
Section: utils
Installed-Size: 2940
Maintainer: Brian Havard <brian....@gmail.com>
Architecture: amd64
Version: 2.50.vgit-1829-buster1
Depends: libc6, libgtkmm-2.4-1v5, fonts-dejavu-core, librsvg2-common, zlib1g, libbz2-1.0, libzstd1
Description: File Commander/L
A file manager and shell that closely follows
the style of Norton Commander for DOS.
Description-md5:
# cat /etc/apt/sources.list.d/*
deb http://silk.apana.org.au/debian buster main stable-dev unstable-dev
# apt upgrade filecommander
filecommander is already the newest version (2.50.vgit-1829-buster1).
# apt install https://silk.apana.org.au/pub/fcl/nightly/filecommander_2.50.vgit-1847-buster1_amd64.deb
Error: Unable to locate package https://silk.apana.org.au/pub/fcl/nightly
# wget install https://silk.apana.org.au/pub/fcl/nightly/filecommander_2.50.vgit-1847-buster1_amd64.deb
--2024-05-04 23:15:34-- http://install/
Resolving install (install)... failed: Name or service not known.
wget: unable to resolve host address ‘install’
--2024-05-04 23:15:35-- https://silk.apana.org.au/pub/fcl/nightly/filecommander_2.50.vgit-1847-buster1_amd64.deb
Resolving silk.apana.org.au (silk.apana.org.au)... 180.150.56.141, 2403:5801:e69d::fa
Connecting to silk.apana.org.au (silk.apana.org.au)|180.150.56.141|:443... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 696572 (680K) [application/vnd.debian.binary-package]
Saving to: ‘filecommander_2.50.vgit-1847-buster1_amd64.deb’

filecommander_2.50.vgit-1847-buster1_amd64.deb 100%[====================================================================================================>] 680.25K 445KB/s in 1.5s

2024-05-04 23:15:39 (445 KB/s) - ‘filecommander_2.50.vgit-1847-buster1_amd64.deb’ saved [696572/696572]

FINISHED --2024-05-04 23:15:39--
Total wall clock time: 4.5s
Downloaded: 1 files, 680K in 1.5s (445 KB/s)
#

Fedora fails too:
# cat /etc/yum.repos.d/FCL.repo
[FCL]
baseurl=http://silk.apana.org.au/rocky8-unstable-dev
enabled=1
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=http://silk.apana.org.au/debian/fc.public.key
name=FCL
# inxi -S
System:
Host: ab250 Kernel: 6.7.10-200.fc39.x86_64 arch: x86_64 bits: 64
Console: pty pts/1 Distro: Fedora Linux 40 (Forty)
# dnf makecache
FCL 4.1 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
Fedora 40 - x86_64 84 kB/s | 23 kB 00:00
Fedora 40 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64 5.1 kB/s | 989 B 00:00
Fedora 40 - x86_64 - Updates 103 kB/s | 23 kB 00:00
Fedora 40 - x86_64 - Updates 363 kB/s | 444 kB 00:01
RPM Fusion for Fedora 40 - Free 6.9 kB/s | 3.6 kB 00:00
RPM Fusion for Fedora 40 - Free - Updates 4.5 kB/s | 3.3 kB 00:00
RPM Fusion for Fedora 40 - Nonfree 15 kB/s | 6.8 kB 00:00
RPM Fusion for Fedora 40 - Nonfree - Updates 28 kB/s | 6.3 kB 00:00
trinity-r14 904 B/s | 3.0 kB 00:03
trinity-r14-noarch 1.3 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:02
Metadata cache created.
# dnf upgrade
Last metadata expiration check: 0:00:05 ago on Sat 04 May 2024 11:45:04 PM EDT.
Dependencies resolved.
Nothing to do.
Complete!
# rpm -qa | grep fileco
filecommander-2.50-vgit_1829_rocky8.x86_64
#
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Felix Miata

[Brian Havard]

On 5/5/24 13:46, Felix Miata wrote:
> http://silk.apana.org.au/fc2development.php ostensibly lists latest available
> versions. They seem to match up with http://silk.apana.org.au/pub/fcl/nightly/ .
> If I try to upgrade to latest using configured repos as directed on the page,
> only older versions are shown, not the latest.

Thanks, I think I've got it fixed now.