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ALPM-0.01
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/ ALPM::DB

NAME

ALPM::DB - Class to represent a libalpm database

SYNOPSIS

... load ALPM with options first ...

my $localdb = ALPM->register_db;
my $name    = $localdb->get_name;
my $perl    = $localdb->get_pkg('perl');

my $url       = 'ftp://ftp.archlinux.org/community/os/i686';
my $syncdb    = ALPM->register_db( 'community' => $url );
my $found_ref = $syncdb->search('perl');

for my $pkg (@$found_ref) {
    print "$pkg->name $pkg->version\n";
}

my $cache = $syncdb->get_pkg_cache;

METHODS

get_name

Usage   : my $name = $db->get_name;
Returns : The name of the repository database.
          Ex: core, extra, community, etc...

get_url

Usage   : my $url = $db->get_url;
Returns : The url of the repository, the same one the DB
          was initialized with or the empty string if this
          is a 'local' database.

get_pkg

Usage   : my $package = $db->get_pkg($package_name)
Params  : $package_name - Exact name of the package to retrieve.
Returns : An ALPM::Package object if the package is found.
          undef if the package with that name is not found.
Usage   : my $results_ref = $db->search([ 'foo', 'bar', ... ]);
Params  : An arrayref of the strings to search for.
Returns : An arrayref of package objects that matched the search.

get_pkg_cache

Usage   : my $cache_ref = $db->get_pkg_cache;
Returns : An arrayref of package objects in the DB cache.

SEE ALSO

ALPM, ALPM::Package

AUTHOR

Justin Davis, <jrcd83 at gmail dot com>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

Copyright (C) 2009 by Justin Davis

This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself, either Perl version 5.10.0 or, at your option, any later version of Perl 5 you may have available.