AptPkg::PkgRecords
Section: User Contributed Perl Documentation (3pm)
Updated: 2018-11-03
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NAME
AptPkg::PkgRecords - APT package description class
SYNOPSIS
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", "Checksum-FileSize", "MD5Hash", "SHA256", "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>