NAME¶
Parse::Debian::Packages - parse the data from a debian Packages.gz
SYNOPSIS¶
use YAML;
use IO::File;
use Parse::Debian::Packages;
my $fh = IO::File->new("Packages");
my $parser = Parse::Debian::Packages->new( $fh );
while (my %package = $parser->next) {
print Dump \%package;
}
DESCRIPTION¶
This module parses the Packages files used by the debian package management
tools.
It presents itself as an iterator. Each call of the ->next method will return
the next package found in the file.
For laziness, we take a filehandle in to the constructor. Please open the file
for us.
METHODS¶
new( $filehandle )¶
next¶
Iterate to the next package in the file, returns either a hash containing a
package description, or false at end of file.
as_hash( $filehandle )¶
Return all the packages from a filehandle as a hash of hashes.
AUTHOR¶
Richard Clamp <richardc@unixbeard.net> with as_hash implementation by
Thomas Klausner.
COPYRIGHT¶
Copyright (C) 2003,2005,2012 Richard Clamp. All Rights Reserved.
This module is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the
same terms as Perl itself.
SEE ALSO¶
Module::Packaged