Perl interface to APT

[Rajkumar S <rajkumars@asianetindia.com>]

Hi,

I want to write a program that will make a web page with a list of all 
packages that needs to be updated on a particular debian box. I do 
apt-get update every night from cron, and wants to have access to the 
apt-get -u upgrade from a web page, for all my servers, in a single 
page. I am lazy and do not want to ssh into every one of them looking 
for upgrades and certainly do not want to upgrade automatically or miss 
an important upgrade.

I did not find any program that does this, so decided to roll my own. 
Looking for programing info about apt, I found libapt-pkg-perl. But no 
docs about it.

So my question is Is libapt-pkg-perl what I should be looking at? Any 
place to find it's documentation?

With Warm regards,

raj