AptPkg::PkgRecords

Section: User Contributed Perl Documentation (3pm)
Updated: 2009-04-16

NAME

AptPkg::PkgRecords - APT package description class

use AptPkg::PkgRecords;

The AptPkg::PkgRecords module provides an interface to the parsed contents of package files.

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, or a package name.

The hash contains the following keys:

: "FileName", "MD5Hash", "SourcePkg", "Maintainer", "ShortDesc", "LongDesc" and "Name".

with values taken from the packages file. If PACK is a package name, these additional values are set:

Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org>

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