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.