[R-SIG-Mac] PACKAGES metadata inconsistency

[Simon Urbanek]

Gábor,

$ curl -sS  https://mac.r-project.org/bin/macosx/big-sur-arm64/contrib/4.5/PACKAGES | grep -A1 'Package: pkgload'
Package: pkgload
Version: 1.5.0

so it was apparently temporary. 

That said, it shouldn't happen, because PACKAGES are synced only *after* the binaries are copied but before the old versions are deleted:

    rsync --exclude PACKAGES\* -av $BASE/$TARGET/bin/$ver/ mac.R-project.org:/$CRAN/bin/macosx/$TARGET/contrib/$ver/
    rsync --delete-after -av $BASE/$TARGET/bin/$ver/ mac.R-project.org:/$CRAN/bin/macosx/$TARGET/contrib/$ver/

so in the interim there should be still two versions of the packages available until PACKAGES is updated (i.e. you should see both pkgload 1.4.1 and 1.5.0 in the listing).

Did you see the 00_COPYING… file in the listing? That would indicate a sync in progress, but still, it shouldn’t be inconsistent. If you see something like this again, please send the full output of
curl https://mac.r-project.org/bin/macosx/big-sur-arm64/contrib/4.5/
to me so I can check what state the files are in at the lime when you are looking at it.

Thanks,
Simon



> On 4 Feb 2026, at 01:21, Gábor Csárdi <csardi.gabor using gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Currently https://mac.r-project.org/bin/macosx/big-sur-arm64/contrib/4.5/PACKAGES
> has
> 
> Package: pkgload
> Version: 1.4.1
> 
> but https://mac.r-project.org/bin/macosx/big-sur-arm64/contrib/4.5/ has
> 
> pkglite_0.2.4.tgz                                  18-Nov-2025 23:42
>           265678
> pkgload_1.5.0.tgz                                  03-Feb-2026 07:38
>           223975
> pkgndep_1.99.3.tgz                                 18-Nov-2025 23:42
>          1999503
> 
> Similarly for base64enc, also updated recently. Probably more, I
> haven't checked extensively.
> 
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