diff --git a/.github/workflows/infrastructure-repository-update.yml b/.github/workflows/infrastructure-repository-update.yml
index 15b8b117a0..875fd3fcf5 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/infrastructure-repository-update.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/infrastructure-repository-update.yml
@@ -178,6 +178,83 @@ jobs:
               ;;
           esac
 
+          # Always ingest the release-generic packages, whatever the target was.
+          #
+          # armbian/ci builds these in their own pipeline and uploads them to
+          # incoming/base-files/ - decoupled so they publish even when a package
+          # build did not run (armbian/build#9476). Nothing used to consume that
+          # directory: the target fell through to the no-op *) branch, so the
+          # debs piled up in incoming and never reached a repository.
+          #
+          # The drop box carries more than base-files. Everything the general
+          # packages build produces lands here and all of it belongs in the
+          # repository - published today as base-files, armbian-firmware,
+          # armbian-firmware-full, armbian-plymouth-theme, armbian-zsh,
+          # fake-ubuntu-advantage-tools and armbian-bsp-cli-<board>. So this
+          # matches on *.deb only: no package list to keep in sync, and a new
+          # generic package needs no change here. repo.sh decides which
+          # component each one belongs to.
+          #
+          # Moved, not copied: incoming is a drop box, so what has been taken
+          # into storage is removed, the same way incoming/cron is. The move is
+          # done with --remove-source-files rather than a following rm -rf, so
+          # rsync deletes exactly the files it confirmed on the receiving side -
+          # a partial transfer (exit 23) leaves whatever did not land in place
+          # for the next run instead of dropping it.
+          #
+          # Only the generic packages move wholesale. kernel, linux-dtb,
+          # linux-libc-dev and u-boot are deliberately NOT in here: there is one
+          # of each per (linuxfamily, branch) and per (board, branch), so which
+          # of them belong in the repository is a selection, not a sweep.
+          # scripts/copy-kernel-packages.sh already does that selection
+          # (SELECT / UBOOT_SELECT / INCLUDE_LIBC_DEV / COPY_UBOOT, deduplicating
+          # against image-info.json); driving it from a config file is the next
+          # step, and belongs in the per-target branches above.
+          #
+          # Add another drop box by naming it here.
+          GENERIC_INCOMING="base-files"
+
+          for GP_DIR in ${GENERIC_INCOMING}; do
+            for GP_REPO in debs debs-beta; do
+              if [ -d "${INCOMING_PATH}/${GP_DIR}/${GP_REPO}" ]; then
+                echo "## Move ${GP_DIR}/${GP_REPO} into storage" >> "$GITHUB_STEP_SUMMARY"
+                rsync -av --remove-source-files \
+                  --include='*/' \
+                  --include='*.deb' \
+                  --exclude='*' \
+                  --omit-dir-times --no-perms --no-group \
+                  "${INCOMING_PATH}/${GP_DIR}/${GP_REPO}/" "${STORAGE_PATH}/${GP_REPO}/" \
+                  2>&1 | tee -a "$GITHUB_STEP_SUMMARY"
+                # PIPESTATUS, not $?: the pipe through tee would otherwise report
+                # tee's status and hide every rsync failure. 23 is expected here -
+                # --no-perms/--no-group on the shared-group storage means some
+                # attributes legitimately do not transfer. Anything else is real,
+                # and must stop the run: update-repository would happily publish
+                # a storage tree that is missing these packages.
+                GP_RC=${PIPESTATUS[0]}
+                case "${GP_RC}" in
+                  0) ;;
+                  23)
+                    echo "Warning: some files/attrs were not transferred (rsync 23)" >> "$GITHUB_STEP_SUMMARY"
+                    ;;
+                  *)
+                    echo "::error::rsync of ${GP_DIR}/${GP_REPO} failed (rsync exit ${GP_RC})"
+                    echo "**rsync of ${GP_DIR}/${GP_REPO} failed (exit ${GP_RC})**" >> "$GITHUB_STEP_SUMMARY"
+                    exit 1
+                    ;;
+                esac
+                # --remove-source-files only removes files; clear the directories
+                # it emptied, and the per-repo dir itself once it is empty.
+                find "${INCOMING_PATH}/${GP_DIR}/${GP_REPO}" -type d -empty -delete
+              else
+                echo "## No ${GP_DIR}/${GP_REPO} in incoming, skipping" >> "$GITHUB_STEP_SUMMARY"
+              fi
+            done
+            # Drop the now-empty drop box. Left alone if anything remains, so a
+            # partial transfer stays visible for the next run.
+            rmdir "${INCOMING_PATH}/${GP_DIR}" 2>/dev/null || true
+          done
+
           # Always sync external
           if [ -d "${INCOMING_PATH}/external/debs" ]; then
               echo "## Copy external debs "