AptPkg::System(3pm) User Contributed Perl Documentation AptPkg::System(3pm)
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>
perl v5.14.2 2012-03-16 AptPkg::System(3pm)