Track newest official release instead of hardcoded 8

distrib/8 no longer exists on the mirror. The old pipeline also
masked the curl failure, since a pipeline exits with awk's status,
so an empty version string was published. Walk the release dirs
newest first, take the first Official one, and fail loudly if none
parse.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

Author: antonym

version.sh

@@ -1,6 +1,16 @@
 #!/bin/bash
 set -e
-VERSION=$(curl -sfL http://mirrors.kernel.org/mageia/distrib/8/x86_64/VERSION | awk '{print $2}')
-# make sure the return has a sane version
-echo $VERSION
-exit 0
+
+MIRROR=http://mirrors.kernel.org/mageia/distrib
+
+# Walk release directories newest first and take the first official one.
+# cauldron is skipped since it is always the devel tree.
+for RELEASE in $(curl -sfL ${MIRROR}/ | grep -oE 'href="[0-9]+/"' | grep -oE '[0-9]+' | sort -rn); do
+  VERSION=$(curl -sfL ${MIRROR}/${RELEASE}/x86_64/VERSION | grep Official | awk '{print $2}')
+  # make sure the return has a sane version
+  if [[ "${VERSION}" =~ ^[0-9]+$ ]]; then
+    echo "${VERSION}"
+    exit 0
+  fi
+done
+exit 1