APT library routines

[Roger Burroughes <roger@inf.ed.ac.uk>]

Folks,

	Hopefully I'm in the right place (all polite redirections
considered if not :-)

	I'm experimenting with dependency checking using libapt-pkg
and libapt-pkg-perl, and wondered if there were any routines
equivalent to rpmlib's rpmtsCheck & rpmtsRun?

	I can't seem to see any functions or routines that take a list
of actions/packages and check the dependencies within that list (as
rpmtsCheck does). Is there an APT equivalent? I'd rather avoid having
to check through values for things like DependsList & RevDependsList
for each package if at all possible...

	Apologies if the answer is staring me in the face, but I've
checked documentation and deity archives and I just can't see
anything... All feedback, suggestions & pointers greatly appreciated.

	BTW, I'm using libapt-pkg-perl because I'm not a C-hacker, so
perl code or references (if such there be) would be preferred!


Roger

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