On Fri, 28 Oct 2011, Joshua Lock wrote:

Probably that a stale tarball was still on your system. Can you tell me
how you're proceeding when the fetch has failed?

i'm guessing it was exactly that -- a stale tarball i didn't realize
i was picking up. since now i can't reproduce so i'm going to forget
about it unless it happens again.

HOMEPAGE = "http://en.opensue.org/Portal:Libzypp"
^^^^^^^

shall i submit a patch to the mailing list?

Please do, that'd be great.

coming shortly.

rday