diff --git a/pkg/de-p1st-repo/arch-repo-push-new.sh b/pkg/de-p1st-repo/arch-repo-push-new.sh
index cda7021..fef2ac8 100644
--- a/pkg/de-p1st-repo/arch-repo-push-new.sh
+++ b/pkg/de-p1st-repo/arch-repo-push-new.sh
@@ -6,19 +6,9 @@ source /etc/de-p1st-repo/arch-repo.cfg || exit
 
 cd "${LOCAL_PKG_DIR}" || exit
 
-# get list of new packages, one package per line
-rsync --ignore-existing --out-format="%n" --dry-run \
-  ./*.pkg.tar.{xz,zst} "${REMOTE_SSH_HOST}":"${REMOTE_PKG_DIR}" > new-pkg.txt || exit
-
 # transfer new packages using rsync
 rsync --ignore-existing --progress --human-readable \
   ./*.pkg.tar.{xz,zst} "${REMOTE_SSH_HOST}":"${REMOTE_PKG_DIR}" || exit
 
-
-
-# transfer new-pkg.txt
-rsync --ignore-times --checksum --progress --human-readable \
-  new-pkg.txt "${REMOTE_SSH_HOST}":"${REMOTE_PKG_DIR}" || exit
-
 # add each new package to database
 ssh "${REMOTE_SSH_HOST}" "/usr/bin/arch-repo-receive-new"
diff --git a/pkg/de-p1st-repo/arch-repo-receive-new.sh b/pkg/de-p1st-repo/arch-repo-receive-new.sh
index 4d26fa1..9ec3370 100644
--- a/pkg/de-p1st-repo/arch-repo-receive-new.sh
+++ b/pkg/de-p1st-repo/arch-repo-receive-new.sh
@@ -13,20 +13,21 @@ function add_to_db(){
   sort_pkgname_pkgver || return $?
 
   echo "For each package: Add latest version to database ..."
-  for PKGNAME in ./pkg/*; do
+  for PKGNAME in ./db/*; do
 
     #
-    # get latest version for PKGNAME
+    # get latest version for $PKGNAME
     #
 
     local LATEST
-    for PKGVER in ./pkg/"${PKGNAME}"/*; do
+    # pick one random version as starting point for the latest version
+    for PKGVER in ./db/"${PKGNAME}"/*; do
       LATEST="$PKGVER"
       break
     done
 
     local cmp
-    for PKGVER in ./pkg/"$PKGNAME"/*; do
+    for PKGVER in ./db/"$PKGNAME"/*; do
       # compare the currently known latest version
       # with the next version
       cmp=$(vercmp "$LATEST" "$PKGVER") || return $?
@@ -39,8 +40,8 @@ function add_to_db(){
     #
     # add latest version of PKGNAME to database
     #
-    PKG=$(cat "./pkg/${PKGNAME}/${LATEST}") || return $?
-    repo-add -n "${REMOTE_DB_NAME}.db.tar.gz" "${PKG}" || return $?
+    PKG=$(cat "./db/${PKGNAME}/${LATEST}") || return $?
+    repo-add --new "${REMOTE_DB_NAME}.db.tar.gz" "${PKG}" || return $?
 
     true
   done
@@ -48,7 +49,7 @@ function add_to_db(){
 
 
 #
-# create files "./pkg/$pkgname/$pkgver" with content "$path_to_file" = "$PKG"
+# create files "./db/$pkgname/$pkgver" with content "$path_to_file" = "$PKG"
 #
 function sort_pkgname_pkgver(){
   echo "Sorting packages by package name and package version ..."
@@ -56,11 +57,11 @@ function sort_pkgname_pkgver(){
   for PKG in ./*.pkg.tar.{xz,zst}; do
     get_pkginfo "$PKG"        || return $?
     get_pkgname "$PKGINFO"    || return $?
-    get_pkgver "$PKGINFO"     || return $?
+    get_pkgver  "$PKGINFO"    || return $?
 
-    echo "Creating file pkg/${PKGNAME} with content ${PKG} ..."
-    mkdir -p "pkg/${PKGNAME}" || return $?
-    echo "${PKG}" > "pkg/${PKGNAME}/${PKGVER}" || return $?
+    echo "Creating file ./db/${PKGNAME} with content ${PKG} ..."
+    mkdir -p "db/${PKGNAME}" || return $?
+    echo "${PKG}" > "db/${PKGNAME}/${PKGVER}" || return $?
   done
 }