Re: dpkg-perl or perl library for dpkg
Fabien Salvi wrote:
>
> Hello.
>
> I try to manage deb packages within perl scripts.
> I would like to use dpkg-perl, but there is no documentation on it...
>
> Is there a perl library to access some informations :
> - version of the package
> - depends
>
> and the possibility to manage dpkg (install, purge...) using only perl
> library and no system calls ?
Like nobody answer me, I do it :-)
So, with the help of a colleague, I have made a very little library wich
can be used to get informations from the status file.
It's clear that it's in development for the moment :-)
I have done also a little example for illustrating it.
If someone want to look at this, he can go to :
http://crinux.cur-archamps.fr/~fabien/dpkg-perl/
There is :
- the library I have made (Extpkg)
- a fix of a problem in List.pm
- the example (infopkg)
- and a package debian regrouping all these things (including the old
dpkg-perl).
$ dpkg -L dpkg-perl
/.
/usr
/usr/bin
/usr/bin/infopkg
/usr/lib
/usr/lib/perl5
/usr/lib/perl5/Dpkg
/usr/lib/perl5/Dpkg/Archive
/usr/lib/perl5/Dpkg/Archive/FTP.pm
/usr/lib/perl5/Dpkg/Archive/Mountable.pm
/usr/lib/perl5/Dpkg/Archive/Directory.pm
/usr/lib/perl5/Dpkg/Package
/usr/lib/perl5/Dpkg/Package/List.pm
/usr/lib/perl5/Dpkg/Package/Index.pm
/usr/lib/perl5/Dpkg/Package/Package.pm
/usr/lib/perl5/Dpkg/Package/Extpkg.pm
/usr/doc
/usr/doc/dpkg-perl
/usr/doc/dpkg-perl/copyright
/usr/doc/dpkg-perl/changelog
/usr/doc/dpkg-perl/README.debian
/usr/doc/dpkg-perl/changelog.gz
Cheers,
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Fabien.
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