--- /dev/null	Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
+++ b/lib/pvl/hosts/include_cache.sh	Tue Mar 03 12:09:22 2015 +0200
@@ -0,0 +1,26 @@
+INCLUDE_CACHE='var/include-cache'
+
+## Normalize a given source path for use in the include-cache
+function include_cache_path {
+    local src="$1"
+    local cache="$src"
+
+    cache="${cache//_/__}"
+    cache="${cache//\//_}"
+
+    echo "$INCLUDE_CACHE/$cache"
+}
+
+## Read the include cache for given path
+function include_cache {
+    local cache="$1"
+
+    if [ ! -e "$cache" ]; then
+        debug "missing: $cache"
+
+        return 0
+    fi
+    
+    cat $cache
+}
+