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ALPM-0.03
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/ ALPM::DB

NAME

ALPM::DB - Class to represent a libalpm database

SYNOPSIS

  ... 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;

METHODS

get_name

  Usage   : my $name = $db->get_name;
  Returns : The name of the repository database.
            Ex: core, extra, community, etc...

get_url

  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.

get_pkg

  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.

get_pkg_cache

  Usage   : my $cache_ref = $db->get_pkg_cache;
  Returns : An arrayref of package objects in the DB cache.

update

  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.

SEE ALSO

ALPM, ALPM::Package, ALPM::Transaction

AUTHOR

Justin Davis, <jrcd83 at gmail dot com>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

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.