dwww Home | Manual pages | Find package

AptPkg::PkgRecords(3pmUser Contributed Perl DocumentatiAptPkg::PkgRecords(3pm)

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 overridden with the translated
           versions:

               "ShortDesc" and "LongDesc".

SEE ALSO
       AptPkg::Cache(3pm), AptPkg(3pm).

AUTHOR
       Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org>

perl v5.36.0                      2022-10-20           AptPkg::PkgRecords(3pm)

Generated by dwww version 1.15 on Wed Jun 26 05:43:48 CEST 2024.