NAME

DPKG::Parse::Packages - Parse the Packages file

SYNOPSIS

    use DPKG::Parse::Packages;
    my $packages = DPKG::Parse::Packages->new(
        'filename' => '/usr/src/packages/Packages',
    );
    while (my $entry = $packages->next_package) {
        print $entry->package . " " . $entry->version . "\n";
    }
    my $postfix = $packages->get_package('name' => 'postfix');

DESCRIPTION

DPKG::Parse::Packages parses a dpkg/apt style Packages file and turns each entry into a DPKG::Parse::Entry object.

See DPKG::Parse for more information on the get_package and next_package methods.

See DPKG::Parse::Entry for more information on the entry objects.

METHODS

new('filename' => '/usr/src/packages/Packages')

Creates a new DPKG::Parse::Packages object. By default, it tries to open /usr/src/packages/Packages.

SEE ALSO

DPKG::Parse, DPKG::Parse::Entry

AUTHOR

Adam Jacob, "holoway@cpan.org"

LICENSE

This library is free software. You can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as perl itself.