While I understand your frustration, and Jolla massively contributes to the overall situation (lack of quality assurance for SailfishOS releases, unattractive Jolla Store for developers drives users to OpenRepos / SailfishOS:Chum, known flaws in SailfishOS are not fixed for years etc.), the answers provided by Jolla’s support are technically mostly correct:
- The feature How to interpret “Uninstall the following …” in the SailfishOS-updater? does not work as intended since its inception and does more harm than good, see the many analog messages, e.g. just for 4.3.0: Packages need to be deleted in order to update to 4.3, Upgrading to 4.3: How/why to remove the “ofono-alien-binder-plugin” …, Problems with installing the OS update 4.3.0 - #14 by sanginteret, [Release notes] Suomenlinna 4.3.0 - #284 by NodaUK etc.
Jolla’s way to handle that has been the usual one: Do nothing … for years.
The general advice is to ignore this message, meanwhile also provided by “sailors” (i.e., Jolla employees). - Yes, it was really you adding the three repositories by installing three pieces of software!
- Storeman per Storeman-Installer: mentaljam-obs … Index of /obs/home:/mentaljam/4.3.0.12_armv7hl
- Puremaps: openrepos-rinigus … https://sailfish.openrepos.net/rinigus/personal/main
- OKboard: openrepos-eber42 … https://sailfish.openrepos.net/eber42/personal/main
- That “mentaljam-obs … Index of /obs/home:/mentaljam/4.3.0.12_armv7hl” ended up in the global repository section (instead of the user one) might be something you want to report to @mentaljam at https://github.com/mentaljam/harbour-storeman-installer/issues
- Some things are denoted inconsistently (¿by Jolla’s support?):
- – mentaljam-obs … Index of /obs/home:/mentaljam/4.3.0.12_aarch64
– hotfixes … https://releases.jolla.com/releases/4.3.0.12/hotfixes/aarch64/
This is a 32bit device, hence all repos ought to be armv7hl, not aarch64! - “Hotfixes used to be in the disabled repositories. It is a relic from the past that has been removed from the recent OS releases.”, which is obviously not true, because it shows up after reflash as: hotfixes … https://releases.jolla.com/releases/4.3.0.12/hotfixes/armv7hl/
- “Jolla Care: December 15, 2021 06:07 Hi, So it seems that after I installed Sailfish as per …”: Did your write that or the Jolla support?
- – mentaljam-obs … Index of /obs/home:/mentaljam/4.3.0.12_aarch64
I wondered more than once how people manage to fundamentally mess up their repository configuration, as described here and which I have seen before.
Mind that you are an administrator of a Unix computer by using SailfishOS, thus take this job responsibly. If you feel that you are not capable of doing that properly, SailfishOS is likely not the right mobile OS for you.