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APT Cache File Format
This document describes the complete implementation and format of the APT
Cache file. The APT Cache file is a way for APT to parse and store a
large number of package files for display in the UI. It's primary design
goal is to make display of a single package in the tree very fast by
pre-linking important things like dependencies and provides.
The specification doubles as documentation for one of the in-memory
structures used by the package library and the APT GUI.
Copyright © Jason Gunthorpe, 1997-1998.
APT and this document are free software; you can redistribute them and/or
modify them under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published
by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your
option) any later version.
For more details, on Debian GNU/Linux systems, see the file
/usr/doc/copyright/GPL for the full license.
[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