On Tuesday 15 September 2009 15:04:23 Fabrice Delliaux wrote: > On Tue, 15 Sep 2009 15:21:50 +0200 Frank Steinmetzger wrote: > > Here it stores alotta info about the binary packages - for instance > > with what useflags they were compiled. This info is not in the > > archives, which only contain the files. > > No, informations about environment are included in tbz2 packages. > You can read man xpak for explanations. > > IMHO, the /usr/portage/packages/Packages file is an index for the > package manager to avoid wasting time to open, parse and close each > tbz2 file.
And it's fetched by machines using a BINHOST, as obviously over HTTP it's not practical to fetch the packages themselves to get the environment info. -- Mike Williams
