Alien::Package::Tgz

Section: User Contributed Perl Documentation (3)
Updated: 2021-01-25
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NAME

Alien::Package::Tgz - an object that represents a tgz package

DESCRIPTION

This is an object class that represents a tgz package, as used in Slackware. It also allows conversion of raw tar files. It is derived from Alien::Package.

CLASS DATA

scripttrans: Translation table between canoical script names and the names used in tgz's.

METHODS

checkfile: Detect tgz files by their extension.
install: Install a tgz with installpkg. Pass in the filename of the tgz to install.
installpkg (a slackware program) is used because I'm not sanguine about just untarring a tgz file. It might trash a system.
scan: Scan a tgz file for fields. Has to scan the filename for most of the information, since there is little useful metadata in the file itself.
unpack: Unpack tgz.
prep: Adds a populated install directory to the build tree.
build: Build a tgz.

AUTHOR

Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net>