Arch Linux

Description:
Hi,
Each repository's packages.txt file should list the packages filenames of the current repository, but it seems that several filenames are incorrect, because of out-of-date versions.
I noticed this while trying to install Arch on a dedicated server (thus, without a screen) using a custom bootstrap script which relies on this file ; the script failed to download some required packages, because of 404 errors.
As I run an official mirror which synchronizes directly on rsync.archlinux.org, I launched a sync to find out if this was not a mirroring problem, but when the sync finished the files were still out-of-date.
I wrote a quick and dirty shell script to list out-of-date package versions in the packages.txt file.
The last run of this script gave me more than 1600 out-of-date package versions and vanished packages...
It's awefully slow, you've been warned ;)

# Just run this script at the root of your packages mirror tree
for txt in `find . -name packages.txt | grep -v setup`
do
dirname=`dirname $txt`
for pkg in `sed 's!.*/!!' $txt`
do
if [ "${pkg%.pkg.tar.gz}" != "$pkg" ]; then
if [ ! -f "$dirname/$pkg" ]; then
repo=`echo $dirname | cut -d/ -f2`
arch=`echo $dirname | cut -d/ -f4`
pkg=${pkg%.pkg.tar.gz}
pkg=${pkg%-i686}
pkg=${pkg%-x86_64}
pkgname=${pkg%-*-*}
txtpkgver=${pkg#$pkgname-}
repopkg=$(basename $(echo $dirname/$pkgname-*.pkg.tar.gz | tr ' ' '\n' | head -1))
if [ -f "$dirname/$repopkg" ]; then
repopkg=${repopkg%.pkg.tar.gz}
repopkg=${repopkg%-i686}
repopkg=${repopkg%-x86_64}
repopkgver=${repopkg#$pkgname-}
echo "$repo/$pkgname is out-of-date in packages.txt (txt: $txtpkgver | repo: $repopkgver)"
else
echo "$repo/$pkgname no longer exists for the $arch arch !"
fi
fi
fi
done
done


Additional info:
* This "bug" concerns the 'core' and 'extra' repositories


Steps to reproduce:
Go on your favorite mirror with your web browser (or any other access method), open /core/os/i686/packages.txt, write down the bash version stored in this file, and notice that the version doesn't match the actual version of the bash package in the repository.