diff -Nur apt-0.5.4cnc7.orig/tools/cached_md5.cc apt-0.5.4cnc7/tools/cached_md5.cc
--- apt-0.5.4cnc7.orig/tools/cached_md5.cc	Sat Jul 27 01:16:34 2002
+++ apt-0.5.4cnc7/tools/cached_md5.cc	Tue Dec 10 16:59:14 2002
@@ -25,13 +25,15 @@
 
 extern const char *__progname;
 
+extern string cache_dir;
+
 CachedMD5::CachedMD5(string DirName)
 {
    string fname = DirName;
    for (string::iterator i = fname.begin(); i != fname.end(); ++i)
       if ('/' == *i)
 	 *i = '_';
-   CacheFileName = _config->FindDir("Dir::Cache", "/var/cache/apt") + '/' +
+   CacheFileName = cache_dir + '/' +
 		   __progname + '/' + fname + ".md5cache";
 
    FILE *f = fopen(CacheFileName.c_str(), "r");
diff -Nur apt-0.5.4cnc7.orig/tools/genpkglist.cc apt-0.5.4cnc7/tools/genpkglist.cc
--- apt-0.5.4cnc7.orig/tools/genpkglist.cc	Sat Jul 27 01:22:48 2002
+++ apt-0.5.4cnc7/tools/genpkglist.cc	Tue Dec 10 17:04:04 2002
@@ -340,6 +340,7 @@
    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" << endl;
    cerr << "                 distributions that use non-automatically generated" << endl;
    cerr << "                 file dependencies" << endl;
@@ -431,6 +432,7 @@
 // end of new stuff from glibc
 #endif /* !HAVE_SCANDIR */
 
+string cache_dir;
 
 int main(int argc, char ** argv) 
 {
@@ -449,7 +451,12 @@
    int i;
    bool fullFileList = false;
    bool progressBar = 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) {
@@ -460,6 +467,14 @@
 	    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 -Nur apt-0.5.4cnc7.orig/tools/gensrclist.cc apt-0.5.4cnc7/tools/gensrclist.cc
--- apt-0.5.4cnc7.orig/tools/gensrclist.cc	Sat Jul 27 01:22:48 2002
+++ apt-0.5.4cnc7/tools/gensrclist.cc	Tue Dec 10 17:07:40 2002
@@ -116,7 +116,7 @@
 
 void usage()
 {
-   cerr << "usage: gensrclist [<options>] <dir> <suffix> <srpm index>" << endl;
+   cerr << "usage: gensrclist [--cache-dir <dir>] [<options>] <dir> <suffix> <srpm index>" << endl;
    cerr << "options:" << endl;
 //   cerr << " --mapi         ???????????????????" << endl;
    cerr << " --progress     show a progress bar" << endl;
@@ -124,6 +124,8 @@
    cerr << "                are in the same directory level"<<endl;
 }
 
+string cache_dir = "/var/cache/apt";
+
 int main(int argc, char ** argv) 
 {
    char buf[300];
@@ -143,6 +145,13 @@
    char *arg_dir, *arg_suffix, *arg_srpmindex;
 
    putenv("LC_ALL=");
+
+   if (argv[1] && argv[2] && strcmp(argv[1], "--cache-dir") == 0) {
+       cache_dir = argv[2];
+       argv += 2;
+       argc -= 2;
+   }
+
    for (i = 1; i < argc; i++) {
       if (strcmp(argv[i], "--mapi") == 0) {
 	 mapi = true;