debian man page for aptpkg::pkgrecords

AptPkg::PkgRecords(3pm) 				User Contributed Perl Documentation				   AptPkg::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, 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".

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

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

perl v5.14.2							    2012-03-16						   AptPkg::PkgRecords(3pm)