Debian 6.0.2

GNU/Linux	Debian 6.0.2 (Squeeze)
	AptPkg::Policy(3pm)

AptPkg::Policy

NAME

AptPkg::Policy − APT package version policy class

use AptPkg::Policy;

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

AptPkg::Policy
The AptPkg::Policy package implements the APT 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 .

Brendan O’Dea <bod@debian.org>

AptPkg::Policy(3pm)