Parse::Debian::Packages(3pm) User Contributed Perl Documentation Parse::Debian::Packages(3pm)

Parse::Debian::Packages - parse the data from a debian Packages.gz

 use YAML;
 use IO::File;
 use Parse::Debian::Packages;
 my $fh = IO::File->new("Packages");
 my $parser = Parse::Debian::Packages->new( $fh );
 while (my %package = $parser->next) {
     print Dump \%package;
 }

This module parses the Packages files used by the debian package management tools.

It presents itself as an iterator. Each call of the ->next method will return the next package found in the file.

For laziness, we take a filehandle in to the constructor. Please open the file for us.

Iterate to the next package in the file, returns either a hash containing a package description, or false at end of file.

Return all the packages from a filehandle as a hash of hashes.

Richard Clamp <richardc@unixbeard.net> with as_hash implementation by Thomas Klausner.

Copyright (C) 2003,2005,2012 Richard Clamp. All Rights Reserved.

This module is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

Module::Packaged

2022-11-19 perl v5.36.0