--- portage.py	2003-08-16 03:28:52.000000000 -0400
+++ portage.py	2003-08-20 00:15:51.000000000 -0400
@@ -3365,17 +3365,24 @@
 
 auxdbkeys=['DEPEND','RDEPEND','SLOT','SRC_URI','RESTRICT','HOMEPAGE','LICENSE','DESCRIPTION','KEYWORDS','INHERITED','IUSE','CDEPEND','PDEPEND']
 auxdbkeylen=len(auxdbkeys)
+dbdir="/var/db/"
 class portdbapi(dbapi):
 	"this tree will scan a portage directory located at root (passed to init)"
 	def __init__(self):
 		self.root=settings["PORTDIR"]
-		self.auxcache={}
+		try:
+			self.auxcache=cPickle.load(file(dbdir+"auxcache.dict"))
+		except:
+			self.auxcache={}
 		#if the portdbapi is "frozen", then we assume that we can cache everything (that no updates to it are happening)
 		self.xcache={}
 		self.frozen=0
 		#overlays="overlay roots"
 		self.overlays=[]
-
+		
+	def savecache(self):
+		cPickle.dump(self.auxcache, file(dbdir+"auxcache.dict", "w"), 1)		
+		
 	def finddigest(self,mycpv):
 		try:
 			mydig   = self.findname2(mycpv)[0]

--- emerge	2003-08-16 03:28:22.000000000 -0400
+++ emerge	2003-08-20 00:06:22.000000000 -0400
@@ -1551,6 +1551,7 @@
 
 
 def post_emerge(retval=0):
+	portage.portdb.savecache()
 	auxpat=re.compile('^([^-]*)(-\d+)?\.info(-\d+)?(\.gz)?')	
 	os.chdir("/")
 	global myopts