AptPkg::Policy (3)

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NAME

AptPkg::Policy - APT package version policy class

SYNOPSIS

use AptPkg::Policy;

DESCRIPTION

The AptPkg::Policy module provides an interface to 's package version policy.

AptPkg::Policy

The AptPkg::Policy package implements the pkgPolicy class.

An instance of the AptPkg::Policy class may be fetched using the "policy" method from an AptPkg::Cache object.

The following methods are implemented:

priority(

PKG

|

FILE

)

Return the pin priority for the given

PKG

(AptPkg::Cache::Package) or

FILE

(AptPkg::Cache::PkgFile) object.

match(

PKG

)

Find the pinned version of

PKG

. Returns an AptPkg::Cache::Version object.

candidate(

PKG

)

Returns the installation candidate version for

PKG

.

SEE ALSO

AptPkg::Cache(3pm), AptPkg(3pm).

AUTHOR

Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org>