Re: pkg_summary out of date due to Unrecognized archive format

["Jeremy C. Reed" <reed%reedmedia.net@localhost>]

On Fri, 23 Nov 2012, Jeremy C. Reed wrote:

> > I am looking at 
> > /ftp/pub/pkgsrc/packages/NetBSD/x86_64/6.0_2012Q3/All/
> 
> I replaced the pkg_summary.bz2 and pkg_summary.gz
> 
> I kept the results from the previous file.  It appeared to have 
> information merged into it and so it had old entries that didn't even 
> exist for download. (So two different problems.)
> 
> The diff for just PKGNAMEs is 7563 lines long for one repo!
> 
> How was the previous pkg_summary generated on Nov. 15?


On IRC, I heard that some packages were missing. I logged in. The file 
was there, but the pkg_summary was replaced again with list missing many 
packages.

There is a cron job that transfers packages.

What generates the pkg_summary?  Can someone please fix this?

(I cc'd to developers who may know.)