ALPM::DB - Class to represent a libalpm database
... load ALPM with options first ... my $localdb = ALPM->local_db; my $name = $localdb->get_name; my $perl = $localdb->get_pkg('perl'); my $url = 'ftp://ftp.archlinux.org/community/os/i686'; my $syncdb = ALPM->register_db( 'community' => $url ); my $found_ref = $syncdb->search('perl'); for my $pkg (@$found_ref) { print "$pkg->name $pkg->version\n"; } my $cache = $syncdb->get_pkg_cache;
Usage : my $name = $db->get_name; Returns : The name of the repository database. Ex: core, extra, community, etc...
Usage : my $url = $db->get_url; Returns : The url of the repository, the same one the DB was initialized with or the empty string if this is a 'local' database.
Usage : my $package = $db->get_pkg($package_name) Params : $package_name - Exact name of the package to retrieve. Returns : An ALPM::Package object if the package is found. undef if the package with that name is not found.
Usage : my $results_ref = $db->search( 'foo', 'bar', ... ); Params : A list of strings to search for. Returns : An arrayref of package objects that matched the search.
Usage : my $cache_ref = $db->get_pkg_cache; Returns : An arrayref of package objects in the DB cache.
Usage : $db->update; Purpose : Updates the local copy of the database's package list. Comment : This needs to create a transaction to work, so make sure you don't have any active transactions. Things may work incorrectly if the database is not updated. If there is no local db copy, the package cache will be empty. Returns : 1 TODO : Provide different return values like alpm does.
ALPM, ALPM::Package, ALPM::Transaction
Justin Davis, <jrcd83 at gmail dot com>
<jrcd83 at gmail dot com>
Copyright (C) 2009 by Justin Davis
This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself, either Perl version 5.10.0 or, at your option, any later version of Perl 5 you may have available.
To install ALPM, copy and paste the appropriate command in to your terminal.
cpanm
cpanm ALPM
CPAN shell
perl -MCPAN -e shell install ALPM
For more information on module installation, please visit the detailed CPAN module installation guide.