Devel::Platform::Info::BSD - Retrieve BSD platform metadata
use Devel::Platform::Info::BSD; my $info = Devel::Platform::Info::BSD->new(); my $data = $info->get_info();
This module is a driver to determine platform metadata regarding the BSD family of operating systems. It should be called indirectly via it's parent Devel::Platform::Info
new
Simply constructs the object.
get_info
Returns a hash reference to the BSD platform metadata.
Returns the following keys:
source archname osname osvers oslabel is32bit is64bit osflag kernel kname kvers
The following links were used to understand how to retrieve the metadata:
* https://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/how-to-find-out-freebsd-version-and-patch-level-number/ * http://www.netbsd.org/ports/
Thanks to Chris 'BINGOS' Williams for the pointers to the appropriate links.
There are no known bugs at the time of this release. However, if you spot a bug or are experiencing difficulties, that is not explained within the POD documentation, please send bug reports and patches to the RT Queue (see below).
RT Queue: http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Dist/Display.html?Name=Devel-Platform-Info
Barbie (BARBIE) <barbie@cpan.org> Brian McCauley (NOBULL) <nobull67@gmail.com> Colin Newell (NEWELL) <newellc@cpan.org> Jon 'JJ' Allen (JONALLEN) <jj@jonallen.info>
Copyright (C) 2010-2019 Birmingham Perl Mongers This distribution is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the Artistic License 2.0.
To install Devel::Platform::Info, copy and paste the appropriate command in to your terminal.
cpanm
cpanm Devel::Platform::Info
CPAN shell
perl -MCPAN -e shell install Devel::Platform::Info
For more information on module installation, please visit the detailed CPAN module installation guide.