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AptPkg::PkgRecords(3pm) | User Contributed Perl Documentation | AptPkg::PkgRecords(3pm) |
NAME¶
AptPkg::PkgRecords - APT package description classSYNOPSIS¶
use AptPkg::PkgRecords;DESCRIPTION¶
The AptPkg::PkgRecords module provides an interface to the parsed contents of package files.AptPkg::PkgRecords¶
The AptPkg::PkgRecords package Implements the APT pkgRecords class. An instance of the AptPkg::PkgRecords class may be fetched using the "packages" method from an AptPkg::Cache object. Methods- lookup(PACK)
- Return a hash (or hash reference, depending on context) for the given package. PACK may either be an AptPkg::Cache::VerFile object, an AptPkg::Cache::DescFile object or a package name. The hash contains the following keys:
"FileName", "MD5Hash",
"SourcePkg", "Maintainer", "ShortDesc",
"LongDesc" and "Name".
with values taken from the packages or translation file.
Note that "LongDesc" is generally not useful for
AptPkg::Cache::VerFile objects, which refer to the Packages file, as these no
longer contain the full description (now in the Translation files).
If PACK is a package name, these additional values are set:
"Section" and "VerStr".
and the following values are overriden with the translated versions:
"ShortDesc" and "LongDesc".
SEE ALSO¶
AptPkg::Cache(3pm), AptPkg(3pm).AUTHOR¶
Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org>2013-05-10 | perl v5.20.0 |