diff --git a/PREPARE_PACKAGE b/PREPARE_PACKAGE
index 8d33e31..96dce0d 100644
--- a/PREPARE_PACKAGE
+++ b/PREPARE_PACKAGE
@@ -7,19 +7,46 @@ if test -d "$MY_LCN_PACK_CHECKOUT"; then
   svn up $MY_LCN_PACK_CHECKOUT
 else
   echo "No \$MY_LCN_PACK_CHECKOUT set, will checkout temporarly"
-  svn export https://forgesvn1.novell.com/svn/suse-i18n/trunk/packages
+  svn export https://svn.berlios.de/svnroot/repos/opensuse-i18n/trunk/packages
   export MY_LCN_PACK_CHECKOUT=$PWD/packages
 fi
 
 rm -rf mo
+tar xf package-translations.tar.bz2
+mv mo mo.old
 mkdir mo
 for file in $MY_LCN_PACK_CHECKOUT/*/po; do
   lang=`echo $file | sed -e "s,/po,,; s,.*/,,"`
   echo $file $lang
   msgcat --use-first $file/*.po | msgfmt -o mo/package-translations-$lang.mo -
 done
-rm -f package-translations.tar.bz2
-tar cfj package-translations.tar.bz2 mo
-rm -rf mo
+if diff -ru mo.old mo; then
+  echo "no changes"
+  rm -rf mo mo.old
+  exit 1
+else
+  rm -f package-translations.tar.bz2
+  tar cfj package-translations.tar.bz2 mo
+  rm -rf mo mo.old
+fi
+
+NAME=package-translations
+{
+echo "-------------------------------------------------------------------"
+timestamp=$(LC_ALL=POSIX TZ=Europe/Berlin date)
+timestamp2=$(LC_ALL=POSIX TZ=Europe/Berlin date +"%Y-%m-%d")
+user=$(osc whois | cut -d\" -f3)
+user=$(echo $user)
+echo "$timestamp - $user"
+echo
+echo "- automated update on $timestamp2"
+echo
+if head -n 6 $NAME.changes | grep -q "automated update" ; then
+    tail -n +6 $NAME.changes
+else
+    cat $NAME.changes
+fi
+} > $NAME.changes.new
+mv $NAME.changes.new $NAME.changes
 
 exit 0
diff --git a/package-translations.changes b/package-translations.changes
index 8d127fa..937c104 100644
--- a/package-translations.changes
+++ b/package-translations.changes
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
-Tue Oct 11 10:48:20 UTC 2011 - coolo@suse.com
+Tue Oct 11 11:41:44 UTC 2011 - coolo@suse.com
 
-- update translations
+- update .changes file and skip non-existant changes
 
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Wed Aug 31 08:06:32 UTC 2011 - coolo@suse.com