[back] [Abstract] [Copyright Notice] [Contents]

APT Cache File Format - Chapter 4
Future Directions


Some good directions to take the cache file is into a cache directory that contains many associated caches that cache other important bits of information. (/var/cache/apt, FHS2)

Caching of the info/*.list is an excellent place to start, by generating all the list files into a tree structure and reverse linking them to the package structures in the main cache file major speed gains in dpkg might be achived.


[back] [Abstract] [Copyright Notice] [Contents]
APT Cache File Format
$Id: cache.sgml,v 1.7 1999/05/23 22:55:55 jgg Exp $
Jason Gunthorpe jgg@debian.org