<title>APT Cache File Format</title>
<author>Jason Gunthorpe <email>jgg@debian.org</email></author>
-<version>$Id: cache.sgml,v 1.7 1999/05/23 22:55:55 jgg Exp $</version>
+<version>$Id: cache.sgml,v 1.8 2001/02/20 07:03:17 jgg Exp $</version>
<abstract>
This document describes the complete implementation and format of the APT
unsigned long VersionCount;
unsigned long DependsCount;
unsigned long PackageFileCount;
- unsigned long MaxVerFileSize;
// Offsets
unsigned long FileList; // PackageFile
unsigned long StringList; // StringItem
+ unsigned long VerSysName; // StringTable
+ unsigned long Architecture; // StringTable
+ unsigned long MaxVerFileSize;
// Allocation pools
struct
} Pools[7];
// Package name lookup
- unsigned long HashTable[512]; // Package
+ unsigned long HashTable[2*1024]; // Package
};
</example>
<taglist>
<tag>DependsCount
<tag>PackageFileCount<item>
These indicate the number of each structure contianed in the cache.
-PackageCount is especially usefull for generating user state structures.
+PackageCount is especially useful for generating user state structures.
See Package::Id for more info.
+<tag>VerSysName<item>
+String representing the versiong system used for this cache
+
+<tag>Architecture<item>
+Architecture the cache was built against.
+
<tag>MaxVerFileSize<item>
The maximum size of a raw entry from the original Package file
(ie VerFile::Size) is stored here.
// Pointers
unsigned long Name; // Stringtable
unsigned long VersionList; // Version
- unsigned long TargetVer; // Version
unsigned long CurrentVer; // Version
- unsigned long TargetDist; // StringTable (StringItem)
unsigned long Section; // StringTable (StringItem)
// Linked lists
by the system. Furthermore, this linked list is guarenteed to be sorted
from Highest version to lowest version with no duplicate entries.
-<tag>TargetVer
<tag>CurrentVer<item>
-This is an index (pointer) to the sub version that is being targeted for
-upgrading. CurrentVer is an index to the installed version, either can be
+CurrentVer is an index to the installed version, either can be
0.
-<tag>TargetDist<item>
-This indicates the target distribution. Automatic upgrades should not go
-outside of the specified dist. If it is 0 then the global target dist should
-be used. The string should be contained in the StringItem list.
-
<tag>Section<item>
This indicates the deduced section. It should be "Unknown" or the section
of the last parsed item.
already.
<tag>Flags<item>
-Flags are some usefull indicators of the package's state.
+Flags are some useful indicators of the package's state.
</taglist>
unsigned long Origin; // Stringtable
unsigned long Label; // Stringtable
unsigned long Architecture; // Stringtable
+ unsigned long Site; // Stringtable
+ unsigned long IndexType; // Stringtable
unsigned long Size;
// Linked list
This is the release information. Please see the files document for a
description of what the release information means.
+<tag>Site<item>
+The site the index file was fetched from.
+
+<tag>IndexType<item>
+A string indicating what sort of index file this is.
+
<tag>Size<item>
Size is provided as a simple check to ensure that the package file has not
been altered.
<sect>StringItem
<p>
StringItem is used for generating single instances of strings. Some things
-like Section Name are are usefull to have as unique tags. It is part of
+like Section Name are are useful to have as unique tags. It is part of
a linked list based at Header::StringList.
<example>
struct StringItem