I have not taken a look at the other files I downloaded from ftp.suse.com this morning, but .../rpm/noarch/INDEX.de is definitely very odd: markgray@k6:/srv/ftp/pub> find -name 'INDEX*' -exec ls -l '{}' \; -rw-r--r-- 1 markgray users 48037 2004-08-26 15:21 ./suse/i386/update/9.1/rpm/i586/INDEX -rw-r--r-- 1 markgray users 1549275 2004-08-26 15:21 ./suse/i386/update/9.1/rpm/i586/INDEX.de -rw-r--r-- 1 markgray users 0 2004-07-16 15:03 ./suse/i386/update/9.1/rpm/i686/INDEX -rw-r--r-- 1 markgray users 0 2004-07-16 15:03 ./suse/i386/update/9.1/rpm/i686/INDEX.de -rw-r--r-- 1 markgray users 1964 2004-08-24 13:40 ./suse/i386/update/9.1/rpm/noarch/INDEX -rw-r--r-- 1 markgray users 2260 2004-08-24 13:40 ./suse/i386/update/9.1/rpm/noarch/INDEX.de Looking at it with emacs shows it to have random garbage in the middle.