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@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
<title>APT Cache File Format</title>
<author>Jason Gunthorpe <email>jgg@debian.org</email></author>
-<version>$Id: cache.sgml,v 1.6 1999/02/01 02:22:11 jgg Exp $</version>
+<version>$Id: cache.sgml,v 1.7 1999/05/23 22:55:55 jgg Exp $</version>
<abstract>
This document describes the complete implementation and format of the APT
@@ -425,6 +425,7 @@ VerStr).
unsigned long Size;
unsigned long InstalledSize;
+ unsigned long Hash;
unsigned short ID;
unsigned char Priority;
};
@@ -465,6 +466,10 @@ Head of the linked list of Provides::NextPkgProv, forward provides.
The archive size for this version. For debian this is the size of the .deb
file. Installed size is the uncompressed size for this version
+<tag>Hash<item>
+This is a characteristic value representing this package. No two packages
+in existance should have the same VerStr and Hash with different contents.
+
<tag>ID<item>
See Package::ID.