AptPkg::Policy
Section: User Contributed Perl Documentation (3pm)
Updated: 2018-11-03
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NAME
AptPkg::Policy - APT package version policy class
SYNOPSIS
use AptPkg::Policy;
DESCRIPTION
The AptPkg::Policy module provides an interface to
APT's package
version policy.
AptPkg::Policy
The AptPkg::Policy package implements the
APT pkgPolicy class.
An instance of the AptPkg::Policy class may be fetched using the
"policy" method from an AptPkg::Cache object.
The following methods are implemented:
- priority(PKG|FILE)
-
Return the pin priority for the given PKG (AptPkg::Cache::Package)
or FILE (AptPkg::Cache::PkgFile) object.
- match(PKG)
-
Find the pinned version of PKG. Returns an AptPkg::Cache::Version
object.
- candidate(PKG)
-
Returns the installation candidate version for PKG.
SEE ALSO
AptPkg::Cache(3pm),
AptPkg(3pm).
AUTHOR
Brendan O'Dea <
bod@debian.org>