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(PKG|FILE)
Return the pin priority for the given PKG (AptPkg::Cache::Package) or FILE (AptPkg::Cache::PkgFile) object.
- match(PKG)
Find the pinned version of PKG. Returns an AptPkg::Cache::Version object.
- candidate(PKG)
Returns the installation candidate version for PKG.
SEE ALSO
AptPkg::Cache(3pm), AptPkg(3pm).
AUTHOR
- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org>