diff -ur apt-0.3.19cnc52/tools/genpkglist.cc apt-0.3.19cnc52-/tools/genpkglist.cc
--- apt-0.3.19cnc52/tools/genpkglist.cc	Thu Jul 12 23:47:33 2001
+++ apt-0.3.19cnc52-/tools/genpkglist.cc	Wed Apr 24 15:50:01 2002
@@ -139,6 +139,7 @@
    ~CachedMD5();
 };
 
+string cache_dir;
 
 CachedMD5::CachedMD5(string DirName)
 {
@@ -153,7 +154,7 @@
         if (buf[i]=='/')
  	   buf[i]='_';
 
-    string cachedir = _config->FindDir("Dir::Cache") + "/genpkglist";
+    string cachedir = cache_dir + "/genpkglist";
     filename = strdup(string(cachedir+string(buf)).c_str());
 
     f = fopen(filename, "r");
@@ -501,6 +502,7 @@
    cerr << "options:" << endl;
    cerr << " --index <file>  file to write srpm index data to" << endl;
    cerr << " --info <file>   file to read update info from" << endl;
+   cerr << " --cache-dir <dir>   use named directory for md5 cache" << endl;
    cerr << " --bloat         do not strip the package file list. Needed for some\ndistributions that use non-automatically generated file dependencies" << endl;
 }
 
@@ -607,6 +609,11 @@
    int i;
    bool fullFileList = false;
    
+   if (getenv("TMPDIR"))
+   	cache_dir = getenv("TMPDIR");
+   else
+   	cache_dir = "/tmp";
+	
    putenv("LC_ALL=");
    for (i = 1; i < argc; i++) {
       if (strcmp(argv[i], "--index") == 0) {
@@ -617,6 +624,14 @@
 	    cout << "genpkglist: filename missing for option --index"<<endl;
 	    exit(1);
 	 }
+      } else if (strcmp(argv[i], "--cache-dir") == 0) {
+	 i++;
+	 if (i < argc) {
+	    cache_dir = argv[i];
+	 } else {
+	    cout << "genpkglist: filename missing for option --cache-dir"<<endl;
+	    exit(1);
+	 }
       } else if (strcmp(argv[i], "--info") == 0) {
 	 i++;
 	 if (i < argc) {
diff -ur apt-0.3.19cnc52/tools/gensrclist.cc apt-0.3.19cnc52-/tools/gensrclist.cc
--- apt-0.3.19cnc52/tools/gensrclist.cc	Thu Jul 12 23:47:33 2001
+++ apt-0.3.19cnc52-/tools/gensrclist.cc	Wed Apr 24 15:52:57 2002
@@ -90,6 +90,7 @@
    ~CachedMD5();
 };
 
+string cache_dir = "/var/cache/apt/gensrclist/";
 
 CachedMD5::CachedMD5(string DirName)
 {
@@ -103,7 +104,7 @@
     for (i = 0; buf[i]; i++)
         if (buf[i]=='/')
  	   buf[i]='_';
-    filename = strdup(string("/var/cache/apt/gensrclist/"+string(buf)).c_str());
+    filename = strdup(string(cache_dir + "/" + string(buf)).c_str());
 
     f = fopen(filename, "r");
     if (!f) {
@@ -243,8 +244,15 @@
    bool mapi;
    
    putenv("LC_ALL=");
+
+   if (argv[1] && argv[2] && strcmp(argv[1], "--cache-dir") == 0) {
+    	cache_dir = argv[2];
+	argv += 2;
+	argc -= 2;
+   }
+   
    if (argc < 4 || argc > 5) {
-      cerr << "usage: gensrclist <dir> <suffix> <srpm index>" << endl;
+      cerr << "usage: gensrclist [--cache-dir <dir>] <dir> <suffix> <srpm index>" << endl;
       exit(1);
    }