urpm - Mageia perl tools to handle the urpmi database
urpm is used by urpmi executables to manipulate packages and media on a Mageia Linux distribution.
urpm
The constructor creates a new urpm object. It's a blessed hash that contains fields from URPM, and also the following fields:
source: { id => src_rpm_file|spec_file }
media: [ { start => int, end => int, name => string, url => string, virtual => bool, media_info_dir => string, with_synthesis => string, no-media-info => bool, iso => string, downloader => string, ignore => bool, update => bool, modified => bool, really_modified => bool, unknown_media_info => bool, } ],
options: hashref of urpm options
several paths:
config: path of urpmi.cfg (/etc/urpmi/urpmi.cfg)
mediacfgdir: path of mediacfg.d (/etc/urpmi/mediacfg.d)
skiplist: path of skip.list (/etc/urpmi/skip.list),
instlist: path of inst.list (/etc/urpmi/inst.list),
prefer_list: path of prefer.list (/etc/urpmi/prefer.list),
prefer_vendor_list: path of prefer.vendor.list (/etc/urpmi/prefer.vendor.list),
private_netrc: path of netrc (/etc/urpmi/netrc),
statedir: state directory (/var/lib/urpmi),
cachedir: cache directory (/var/cache/urpmi),
root: path of the rooted system (when using global urpmi config),
urpmi_root: path of the rooted system (when both urpmi & rpmdb are chrooted)
Several subs:
fatal: sub for relaying fatal errors (should popup in GUIes)
error: sub for relaying other errors
log: sub for relaying messages if --verbose
print: sub for always displayed messages, enable to redirect output for eg: installer
info: sub for messages displayed unless --quiet
All URPM methods are available on an urpm object.
URPM
Like urpm->new but also parse the command line and parse the configuration file.
Open RPM database (RW or not) and die if it fails
Register local packages for being installed, keep track of source.
checks whether the delta RPM represented by $pkg is installable wrt the RPM DB on $root. For this, it extracts the rpm version to which the delta applies from the delta rpm filename itself. So naming conventions do matter :)
Extract package that should be installed instead of upgraded, installing instead of upgrading is useful - for inst.list (cf flag disable_obsolete)
Sources is a hash of id -> source rpm filename.
Get reason of update for packages to be updated. Use all update medias if none given.
The URPM package is used to manipulate at a lower level synthesis and rpm files.
See also submodules: gurpmi, urpm::args, urpm::bug_report, urpm::cdrom, urpm::cfg, urpm::download, urpm::get_pkgs, urpm::install, urpm::ldap, urpm::lock, urpm::main_loop, urpm::md5sum, urpm::media, urpm::mirrors, urpm::msg, urpm::orphans, urpm::parallel_ka_run, urpm::parallel, urpm::parallel_ssh, urpm::prompt, urpm::removable, urpm::select, urpm::signature, urpm::sys, urpm::util, urpm::xml_info_pkg, urpm::xml_info
Copyright (C) 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005 MandrakeSoft SA
Copyright (C) 2005-2010 Mandriva SA
Copyright (C) 2011-2017 Mageia
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option) any later version.
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA.
To install urpm, copy and paste the appropriate command in to your terminal.
cpanm
cpanm urpm
CPAN shell
perl -MCPAN -e shell install urpm
For more information on module installation, please visit the detailed CPAN module installation guide.