man Debian::Debget () - helper functions used by debget et al
NAME
Debian::Debget - helper functions used by debget et al
SYNOPSIS
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DESCRIPTION
These are functions used by debget and related scripts, but you can use them, too. I will do everything possible to retain backwards compatibility for the interfaces documented here.
Most of these functions will CWdie if they're called in a context (scalar, list) which doesn't match what they expect. This is so that I will be able to change them to return something different in the other context without breaking old code.
IMPORTABLES
- binary_package_info package
-
This function returns some information about a binary package.
If the package isn't found nothing is returned. If it is found, the
return value is a data structure like this:
$r->{$distribution}{$architecture} = $version; # $distribution => 'stable', 'experimental', etc. # $architecture => 'i386', 'powerpc', etc.If something goes seriously wrong binary_package_info will CWdie. - source_package_info package
-
This function returns some information about a source package.
If the package isn't found nothing is returned. If it is found, the
return value is a data structure like this:
$r->{$distribution} = [$version, @binary_package_list]; # $distribution => 'stable', 'experimental', etc. # $version => '123.4-5', etc. # @binary_package_list => qw(nethack-common nethack-x11), etc. - cmp_debian_versions v1, v2
- This is like CWcmp for Debian package version numbers. It is prototyped to take 2 scalar arguments, so it can be used as-is as a CWsort comparison function.
- upstream_version debian-version
- This returns the upstream version extracted from the given debian-version
- pool_dir package
- This returns the pool directory (starting at the CWpool/ level) in which files for package are stored. package can be either a binary or source package name.
SEE ALSO
AUTHOR
Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>