[R-SIG-Mac] PACKAGES metadata inconsistency

[Gábor Csárdi]

No, I am fairly sure that I did not see 00_COPYING...

I put the output of curl here, together with some code that shows what
packages are currently inconsistent, if any:
https://gist.github.com/gaborcsardi/797472e42b43d2f938f852614f2a170f

Thanks,
G.

On Wed, Feb 4, 2026 at 12:41 AM Simon Urbanek
<simon.urbanek using r-project.org> wrote:
>
> 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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