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.
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:
Section
and VerStr
.
AptPkg::Cache(3pm), AptPkg(3pm).
Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org>