NAME¶
Debian::Debget - helper functions used by
debget et al
SYNOPSIS¶
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DESCRIPTION¶
These are functions used by
debget and related scripts, but you can use
them, too. I will do everything possible to retain backwards compatibility for
the interfaces documented here.
Most of these functions will "die" if they're called in a context
(scalar, list) which doesn't match what they expect. This is so that I will be
able to change them to return something different in the other context without
breaking old code.
IMPORTABLES¶
- binary_package_info package
- This function returns some information about a binary package.
If the package isn't found nothing is returned. If it is found, the
return value is a data structure like this:
$r->{$distribution}{$architecture} = $version;
# $distribution => 'stable', 'experimental', etc.
# $architecture => 'i386', 'powerpc', etc.
If something goes seriously wrong binary_package_info will
"die".
- source_package_info package
- This function returns some information about a source package.
If the package isn't found nothing is returned. If it is found, the
return value is a data structure like this:
$r->{$distribution} = [$version, @binary_package_list];
# $distribution => 'stable', 'experimental', etc.
# $version => '123.4-5', etc.
# @binary_package_list => qw(nethack-common nethack-x11), etc.
- cmp_debian_versions v1, v2
- This is like "cmp" for Debian package version numbers. It is
prototyped to take 2 scalar arguments, so it can be used as-is as a
"sort" comparison function.
- upstream_version debian-version
- This returns the upstream version extracted from the given
debian-version
- pool_dir package
- This returns the pool directory (starting at the "pool/" level)
in which files for package are stored. package can be either
a binary or source package name.
SEE ALSO¶
debget(1),
AptPkg(3pm)
AUTHOR¶
Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>