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Package metadata location

Package metadata belongs to /var/lib/pkg. For each package installed a folder is create after its name.

ls -1d /var/lib/pkg/*  | head -15
/var/lib/pkg/Cython/
/var/lib/pkg/GitPython/
/var/lib/pkg/Mako/
/var/lib/pkg/ModemManager/
/var/lib/pkg/NetworkManager/
/var/lib/pkg/NetworkManager-openconnect/
/var/lib/pkg/NetworkManager-openvpn/
/var/lib/pkg/PyQt5/
/var/lib/pkg/PyQt5_sip/
/var/lib/pkg/PyQtWebEngine/
/var/lib/pkg/PyYAML/
/var/lib/pkg/Remmina/
/var/lib/pkg/a52dec/
/var/lib/pkg/aalib/
/var/lib/pkg/account-plugins/

Each package contains a file with a file list of the package, a dependency file that lists the package dependencies, origin repository, info file, etc.

ls -1d /var/lib/pkg/python3/*
/var/lib/pkg/python3/python3-3.9.7.build
/var/lib/pkg/python3/python3-3.9.7.dependency
/var/lib/pkg/python3/python3-3.9.7.tag
/var/lib/pkg/python3/python3-3.9.7.tree
/var/lib/pkg/python3/python3.info
/var/lib/pkg/python3/python3.url

All of these files are necessary to be in place to make pkgmanager be able to recognize the package, it's relations to other packages and files in the system.

Repository cache location

Repository caches are located in /var/cache/pkgmanager/

Each folder in /var/cache/pkgmanager represents a remote repository.

Cache structure:

ls /var/cache/pkgmanager/ftp.tankos.org/
PKGLIST  PKGNAMES  pkgs/  priority

PKGLIST - is a list of all packages a remote repository provide

PKGNAMES - a short list of all package names a repository provide

priority - the priority of the repository

pkgs/ - folder which contains packages downloaded from the repository

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