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>
