diff --git a/lib/libalpm/alpm.c b/lib/libalpm/alpm.c
index 77f3632e..b642501b 100644
--- a/lib/libalpm/alpm.c
+++ b/lib/libalpm/alpm.c
@@ -26,6 +26,7 @@
 #include <stdlib.h>
 #include <errno.h>
 #include <fcntl.h>
+#include <ctype.h>
 #include <string.h>
 #include <sys/types.h>
 #include <sys/stat.h>
@@ -705,6 +706,44 @@ int alpm_pkg_vercmp(const char *ver1, const char *ver2)
 	return(_alpm_versioncmp(ver1, ver2));
 }
 
+/* internal */
+char *_supported_archs[] = {
+	"i586",
+	"i686",
+	"ppc",
+	"x86_64",
+};
+
+char *alpm_pkg_name_hasarch(char *pkgname)
+{
+	/* TODO remove this when we transfer everything over to -ARCH
+	 *
+	 * this parsing sucks... it's done to support
+	 * two package formats for the time being:
+	 *    package-name-foo-1.0.0-1-i686
+	 * and
+	 *    package-name-bar-1.2.3-1
+	 */
+	int i = 0;
+	char *arch, *cmp, *p;
+
+	if((p = strrchr(pkgname, '-'))) {
+		for(i=0; i < sizeof(_supported_archs)/sizeof(char*); ++i) {
+			cmp = p+1;
+			arch = _supported_archs[i];
+
+			/* whee, case insensitive compare */
+
+			while(*arch && *cmp && tolower(*arch++) == tolower(*cmp++)) ;
+			if(*arch || *cmp) continue;
+
+			return p;
+		}
+	}
+	return NULL;
+}
+
+
 /** @} */
 
 /** @defgroup alpm_groups Group Functions
diff --git a/lib/libalpm/alpm.h b/lib/libalpm/alpm.h
index 155d09ad..394001ce 100644
--- a/lib/libalpm/alpm.h
+++ b/lib/libalpm/alpm.h
@@ -205,6 +205,7 @@ int alpm_pkg_checksha1sum(PM_PKG *pkg);
 char *alpm_fetch_pkgurl(char *url);
 int alpm_parse_config(char *file, alpm_cb_db_register callback, const char *this_section);
 int alpm_pkg_vercmp(const char *ver1, const char *ver2);
+char *alpm_pkg_name_hasarch(char *pkgname);
 
 /*
  * Groups
diff --git a/lib/libalpm/package.c b/lib/libalpm/package.c
index 85d76151..1302ebe5 100644
--- a/lib/libalpm/package.c
+++ b/lib/libalpm/package.c
@@ -435,6 +435,30 @@ pmpkg_t *_alpm_pkg_isin(char *needle, pmlist_t *haystack)
 	return(NULL);
 }
 
+char *_alpm_pkg_makefilename(pmpkg_t *pkg)
+{
+	char *fname = NULL;
+	int len = 0, arch_valid = 0;
+
+	len = strlen(pkg->name) + strlen(pkg->version) + strlen(PM_EXT_PKG) + 3;
+	if(pkg->arch && strlen(pkg->arch) > 0) {
+		arch_valid = 1;
+		len += strlen(pkg->arch) + 1;
+	}
+
+	if((fname = (char *)calloc(len, sizeof(char))) == NULL) {
+		RET_ERR(PM_ERR_MEMORY, NULL);
+	}
+
+	if(arch_valid) {
+		snprintf(fname, len-1, "%s-%s-%s" PM_EXT_PKG, pkg->name, pkg->version, pkg->arch);
+	} else {
+		snprintf(fname, len-1, "%s-%s" PM_EXT_PKG, pkg->name, pkg->version);
+	}
+
+	return fname;
+}
+
 int _alpm_pkg_splitname(char *target, char *name, char *version, int witharch)
 {
 	char tmp[PKG_FULLNAME_LEN+7];
@@ -456,12 +480,9 @@ int _alpm_pkg_splitname(char *target, char *name, char *version, int witharch)
 		*p = '\0';
 	}
 
-	if((p = _alpm_pkgname_has_arch(tmp))) {
-		*p = '\0';
-	}
 	if(witharch) {
 		/* trim architecture */
-		if((p = _alpm_pkgname_has_arch(tmp))) {
+		if((p = alpm_pkg_name_hasarch(tmp))) {
 			*p = 0;
 		}
 	}
diff --git a/lib/libalpm/package.h b/lib/libalpm/package.h
index 6dd092c8..d96f8d41 100644
--- a/lib/libalpm/package.h
+++ b/lib/libalpm/package.h
@@ -98,6 +98,7 @@ void _alpm_pkg_free(void *data);
 int _alpm_pkg_cmp(const void *p1, const void *p2);
 pmpkg_t *_alpm_pkg_load(char *pkgfile);
 pmpkg_t *_alpm_pkg_isin(char *needle, pmlist_t *haystack);
+char *_alpm_pkg_makefilename(pmpkg_t *pkg);
 int _alpm_pkg_splitname(char *target, char *name, char *version, int witharch);
 
 #endif /* _ALPM_PACKAGE_H */
diff --git a/lib/libalpm/server.c b/lib/libalpm/server.c
index aeaad6ae..4c0b5e79 100644
--- a/lib/libalpm/server.c
+++ b/lib/libalpm/server.c
@@ -180,6 +180,7 @@ int _alpm_downloadfiles_forreal(pmlist_t *servers, const char *localpath,
 				} else {
 						dlf = downloadXGet(server->s_url, &ust, (handle->nopassiveftp ? "" : "p"));
 				}
+
 				if(downloadLastErrCode != 0 || dlf == NULL) {
 					_alpm_log(PM_LOG_ERROR, _("failed retrieving file '%s' from %s://%s: %s"), fn,
 										server->s_url->scheme, server->s_url->host, downloadLastErrString);
diff --git a/lib/libalpm/sync.c b/lib/libalpm/sync.c
index 52de2660..9fd1884f 100644
--- a/lib/libalpm/sync.c
+++ b/lib/libalpm/sync.c
@@ -785,23 +785,23 @@ int _alpm_sync_commit(pmtrans_t *trans, pmdb_t *db_local, pmlist_t **data)
 			pmdb_t *dbs = spkg->data;
 
 			if(current == dbs) {
+				char *fname = NULL;
 				char path[PATH_MAX];
 
+				fname = _alpm_pkg_makefilename(spkg);
 				if(trans->flags & PM_TRANS_FLAG_PRINTURIS) {
-					snprintf(path, PATH_MAX, "%s-%s" PM_EXT_PKG, spkg->name, spkg->version);
-					EVENT(trans, PM_TRANS_EVT_PRINTURI, alpm_db_getinfo(current, PM_DB_FIRSTSERVER), path);
+					EVENT(trans, PM_TRANS_EVT_PRINTURI, alpm_db_getinfo(current, PM_DB_FIRSTSERVER), fname);
 				} else {
 					struct stat buf;
-					snprintf(path, PATH_MAX, "%s/%s-%s" PM_EXT_PKG, ldir, spkg->name, spkg->version);
+					snprintf(path, PATH_MAX, "%s/%s", ldir, fname);
 					if(stat(path, &buf)) {
 						/* file is not in the cache dir, so add it to the list */
-						snprintf(path, PATH_MAX, "%s-%s" PM_EXT_PKG, spkg->name, spkg->version);
-						files = _alpm_list_add(files, strdup(path));
+						files = _alpm_list_add(files, strdup(fname));
 					} else {
-						_alpm_log(PM_LOG_DEBUG, _("%s-%s%s is already in the cache\n"),
-							spkg->name, spkg->version, PM_EXT_PKG);
+						_alpm_log(PM_LOG_DEBUG, _("%s is already in the cache\n"), fname);
 					}
 				}
+				FREE(fname);
 			}
 		}
 
@@ -843,12 +843,11 @@ int _alpm_sync_commit(pmtrans_t *trans, pmdb_t *db_local, pmlist_t **data)
 	for(i = trans->packages; i; i = i->next) {
 		pmsyncpkg_t *sync = i->data;
 		pmpkg_t *spkg = sync->pkg;
-		char str[PATH_MAX], pkgname[PATH_MAX];
+		char str[PATH_MAX], *pkgname;
 		char *md5sum1, *md5sum2, *sha1sum1, *sha1sum2;
 		char *ptr=NULL;
 
-		snprintf(pkgname, PATH_MAX, "%s-%s" PM_EXT_PKG,
-			spkg->name, spkg->version);
+		pkgname = _alpm_pkg_makefilename(spkg);
 		md5sum1 = spkg->md5sum;
 		sha1sum1 = spkg->sha1sum;
 
@@ -885,7 +884,7 @@ int _alpm_sync_commit(pmtrans_t *trans, pmdb_t *db_local, pmlist_t **data)
 			}
 			if(doremove) {
 				char str[PATH_MAX];
-				snprintf(str, PATH_MAX, "%s%s/%s-%s" PM_EXT_PKG, handle->root, handle->cachedir, spkg->name, spkg->version);
+				snprintf(str, PATH_MAX, "%s%s/%s", handle->root, handle->cachedir, pkgname);
 				unlink(str);
 				snprintf(ptr, 512, _("archive %s was corrupted (bad MD5 or SHA1 checksum)\n"), pkgname);
 			} else {
@@ -894,6 +893,7 @@ int _alpm_sync_commit(pmtrans_t *trans, pmdb_t *db_local, pmlist_t **data)
 			*data = _alpm_list_add(*data, ptr);
 			retval = 1;
 		}
+		FREE(pkgname);
 		FREE(md5sum2);
 		FREE(sha1sum2);
 	}
@@ -965,8 +965,12 @@ int _alpm_sync_commit(pmtrans_t *trans, pmdb_t *db_local, pmlist_t **data)
 	for(i = trans->packages; i; i = i->next) {
 		pmsyncpkg_t *sync = i->data;
 		pmpkg_t *spkg = sync->pkg;
+
+		char *fname = NULL;
 		char str[PATH_MAX];
-		snprintf(str, PATH_MAX, "%s%s/%s-%s" PM_EXT_PKG, handle->root, handle->cachedir, spkg->name, spkg->version);
+
+		fname = _alpm_pkg_makefilename(spkg);
+		snprintf(str, PATH_MAX, "%s%s/%s", handle->root, handle->cachedir, fname);
 		if(_alpm_trans_addtarget(tr, str) == -1) {
 			goto error;
 		}
diff --git a/lib/libalpm/util.c b/lib/libalpm/util.c
index 38b0bced..ddaecebb 100644
--- a/lib/libalpm/util.c
+++ b/lib/libalpm/util.c
@@ -641,44 +641,4 @@ void _alpm_time2string(time_t t, char *buffer)
 	}
 }
 
-/* internal */
-char *_supported_archs[] = {
-	"i586",
-	"i686",
-	"ppc",
-	"x86_64",
-};
-
-char *_alpm_pkgname_has_arch(char *pkgname)
-{
-	/* TODO remove this when we transfer everything over to -ARCH
-	 *
-	 * this parsing sucks... it's done to support
-	 * two package formats for the time being:
-	 *    package-name-foo-1.0.0-1-i686
-	 * and
-	 *    package-name-bar-1.2.3-1
-	 */
-	int i = 0;
-	char *arch, *cmp, *p;
-
-	if((p = strrchr(pkgname, '-'))) {
-		for(i=0; i < sizeof(_supported_archs)/sizeof(char*); ++i) {
-			cmp = p+1;
-			arch = _supported_archs[i];
-
-			/* whee, case insensitive compare */
-
-			while(*arch && *cmp && tolower(*arch++) == tolower(*cmp++)) ;
-			if(*arch || *cmp) continue;
-
-			return p;
-		}
-	}
-	return NULL;
-}
-
-
-
-
 /* vim: set ts=2 sw=2 noet: */
diff --git a/lib/libalpm/util.h b/lib/libalpm/util.h
index 37a19e89..37b944cb 100644
--- a/lib/libalpm/util.h
+++ b/lib/libalpm/util.h
@@ -72,7 +72,6 @@ int _alpm_check_freespace(pmtrans_t *trans, pmlist_t **data);
 #endif
 int _alpm_reg_match(char *string, char *pattern);
 void _alpm_time2string(time_t t, char *buffer);
-char *_alpm_pkgname_has_arch(char *pkgname);
 #ifdef __sun__
 char* strsep(char** str, const char* delims);
 char* mkdtemp(char *template);
diff --git a/scripts/gensync b/scripts/gensync
index 59812efe..8ddee82a 100755
--- a/scripts/gensync
+++ b/scripts/gensync
@@ -23,8 +23,8 @@
 myver='2.9.8'
 
 usage() {
-  echo "gensync $myver"
-  echo "usage: $0 <root> <destfile> [package_directory]"
+	echo "gensync $myver"
+	echo "usage: $0 <root> <destfile> [package_directory]"
 	echo
 	echo "gensync will generate a sync database by reading all PKGBUILD files"
 	echo "from <root>.  gensync builds the database in a temporary directory"
@@ -41,10 +41,12 @@ usage() {
 	echo
 	echo "example:  gensync /var/abs/local /home/mypkgs/custom.db.tar.gz"
 	echo
-  echo
-  exit 0
+	echo
+	exit 0
 }
 
+source /etc/makepkg.conf
+
 die() {
 	echo "gensync: $*" >&2
 	rm -rf $gstmpdir
@@ -65,11 +67,6 @@ check_option() {
 
 get_md5checksum()
 {
-	if [ "$pkgdir" != "" ]; then
-		pkgfile="$pkgdir/$pkgname-$pkgver-$pkgrel.pkg.tar.gz"
-	else
-		pkgfile="$destdir/$pkgname-$pkgver-$pkgrel.pkg.tar.gz"
-	fi
 	if [ -f $pkgfile ]; then
 		md5line=`md5sum $pkgfile`
 		[ ! -z "$md5line" ] && pkgmd5sum=${md5line%  *}
@@ -78,8 +75,33 @@ get_md5checksum()
 	return 0
 }
 
+get_sha1checksum()
+{
+	if [ -f $pkgfile ]; then
+		sha1line=`sha1sum $pkgfile`
+		[ ! -z "$sha1line" ] && pkgsha1sum=${sha1line% *}
+		echo $pkgsha1sum
+	fi
+	return 0
+}
+
 db_write_entry()
 {
+	if [ "$pkgdir" != "" ]; then
+		pkgfile="$pkgdir/$pkgname-$pkgver-$pkgrel-$CARCH.$PKGEXT"
+	else
+		pkgfile="$destdir/$pkgname-$pkgver-$pkgrel-$CARCH.$PKGEXT"
+	fi
+	if [ ! -f $pkgfile ]; then
+		die "Package '$pkgfile' not found"
+	fi
+
+	csize=$(du -b $pkgfile | cut -f1)
+	usize=$(LANG= LC_ALL= pacman -Qi -p $pkgfile 2>/dev/null|grep ^Size|sed 's/.*: \(.*\)/\1/')
+
+	pkgmd5sum=`get_md5checksum $pkgfile`
+	[ -z $pkgmd5sum ] && die "error generating checksum for $pkgfile"
+
 	unset pkgname pkgver pkgrel pkgdesc force
 	unset groups replaces provides depends conflicts options
 	source $1 || return 1
@@ -106,11 +128,19 @@ db_write_entry()
 		done
 		echo "" >>desc
 	fi
+	echo "%ARCH%" >>desc
+	echo "$arch" >>desc
+	echo "" >>desc
 	if [ -n $csize ]; then
 		echo "%CSIZE%" >>desc
 		echo "$csize" >>desc
 		echo "" >>desc
 	fi
+	if [ -n $usize ]; then
+		echo "%USIZE%" >>desc
+		echo "$usize" >>desc
+		echo "" >>desc
+	fi
 	if [ ! -z $pkgmd5sum ]; then
 		echo "%MD5SUM%" >>desc
 		echo "$pkgmd5sum" >>desc
@@ -132,21 +162,21 @@ db_write_entry()
 	if [ ${#depends[*]} -gt 0 ]; then
 		echo "%DEPENDS%" >>depends
 		for it in "${depends[@]}"; do
-		  echo "$it" >>depends
+			echo "$it" >>depends
 		done
 		echo "" >>depends
 	fi
 	if [ ${#conflicts[*]} -gt 0 ]; then
 		echo "%CONFLICTS%" >>depends
 		for it in "${conflicts[@]}"; do
-		  echo "$it" >>depends
+			echo "$it" >>depends
 		done
 		echo "" >>depends
 	fi
 	if [ ${#provides[*]} -gt 0 ]; then
 		echo "%PROVIDES%" >>depends
 		for it in "${provides[@]}"; do
-		  echo "$it" >>depends
+			echo "$it" >>depends
 		done
 		echo "" >>depends
 	fi
@@ -180,15 +210,6 @@ echo "gensync: building database entries, generating md5sums..." >&2
 cd `dirname $2`
 for file in `find $rootdir/* -name PKGBUILD`; do
 	source $file || die "errors parsing $file"
-	if [ "$pkgdir" != "" ]; then
-		pkgfile="$pkgdir/$pkgname-$pkgver-$pkgrel.pkg.tar.gz"
-	else
-		pkgfile="$destdir/$pkgname-$pkgver-$pkgrel.pkg.tar.gz"
-	fi
-	if [ -f $pkgfile ]; then
-		csize=`du -b $pkgfile | cut -f1`
-		pkgmd5sum=`get_md5checksum $pkgfile`
-		[ -z $pkgmd5sum ] && die "error generating checksum for $pkgfile"
 		db_write_entry $file || die "error writing entry for $file"
 	else
 		echo "gensync: missing package: $pkgfile" >&2
@@ -202,3 +223,4 @@ tar c * | gzip -9 >$destfile
 
 rm -rf $gstmpdir
 exit 0
+# vim: set ts=2 sw=2 noet:
diff --git a/src/pacman/package.c b/src/pacman/package.c
index bb510838..498b6988 100644
--- a/src/pacman/package.c
+++ b/src/pacman/package.c
@@ -225,7 +225,7 @@ int split_pkgname(char *target, char *name, char *version)
 		*p = '\0';
 	}
 	/* trim architecture */
-	if((p = _alpm_pkgname_has_arch(tmp))) {
+	if((p = alpm_pkg_name_hasarch(tmp))) {
 		*p = '\0';
 	}