Broken indexes on ftp

[Marcin Król]

Hello.

Some of you probably has read about problems with AC installation using 
network bootdisk. I must say, I was surprised by those problems, as I 
haven't changed bootdisk images in the meantime. I think that poldek 
indexes on ftp are broken. Why?

1. Instead of installing packages, poldek in installer just says "broken 
dependencies". And nothing more. After adding -vv its says:

warn: req 'kernel-smp = 2.4.27-1' needs an epoch (assuming same epoch as
kernel-smp-3:2.6.8-4)

and same thing for almost every package, but of course with different 
package names and versions.

2. Regenerating indexes on ftp doesn't fixes the problem. But 
regenerating indexes on my private mirror(s) solves the problem and 
everything is working ok again. While regenerating indexes my system 
poldek says "BROKEN" about original indexes from ftp. My poldek version: 
  0.18.7-2, version in installer: same, version on ftp: 0.18.3-4

So... If regenerating indexes helps, then those from ftp are broken. 
Question is: what was changed and is causing this? Whatever it was, it 
must be reverted or fixed, or installation via network bootdisks will 
not work.

M.