AptPkg::System
Section: User Contributed Perl Documentation (3pm)
Updated: 2018-11-03
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NAME
AptPkg::System - APT system abstraction class
SYNOPSIS
use AptPkg::System;
DESCRIPTION
The AptPkg::System module provides an interface to
APT's system
abstraction mechanism.
AptPkg::System
The AptPkg::System package implements the
APT pkgSystem class.
An instance of the AptPkg::System class appropriate for the particular
back-end packaging system (deb, rpm, etc.) may be fetched using the
system method from AptPkg::Config.
A global instance of the libapt-pkg _system instance is provided as
$AptPkg::System::_system, and may be imported.
The following methods are implemented:
- label
-
Return the description of the packaging system, for example:
Debian dpkg interface
for Debian systems.
- lock
-
Lock the packaging system.
- unlock(QUIET)
-
Unlock the packaging system, ignoring errors if QUIET is non-zero.
- versioning
-
Return an instance of the AptPkg::Version class for this system.
SEE ALSO
AptPkg::Config(3pm),
AptPkg::Version(3pm),
AptPkg(3pm).
AUTHOR
Brendan O'Dea <
bod@debian.org>