AptPkg::Policy(3pm) User Contributed Perl Documentation AptPkg::Policy(3pm)
NAME
AptPkg::Policy - APT package version policy class
SYNOPSIS
use AptPkg::Policy;
DESCRIPTION
The AptPkg::Policy module provides an interface to APT's package version
policy.
AptPkg::Policy
The AptPkg::Policy package implements the APT pkgPolicy class.
An instance of the AptPkg::Policy class may be fetched using the
"policy" method from an AptPkg::Cache object.
The following methods are implemented:
priority(VER|FILE)
Return the pin priority for the given VER (AptPkg::Cache::Version)
or FILE (AptPkg::Cache::PkgFile) object.
candidate(PKG)
Returns the installation candidate version for PKG. Returns an
AptPkg::Cache::Version object.
SEE ALSO
AptPkg::Cache(3pm), AptPkg(3pm).
AUTHOR
Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org>
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