NAME
Alien::Package::Tgz - an object that represents a tgz package
DESCRIPTION
This is an object class that represents a tgz package, as used in Slackware. It also allows conversion of raw tar files. It is derived from Alien::Package.
CLASS DATA
- scripttrans
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Translation table between canoical script names and the names used in tgz's.
METHODS
- checkfile
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Detect tgz files by their extension.
- install
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Install a tgz with installpkg. Pass in the filename of the tgz to install.
installpkg (a slackware program) is used because I'm not sanguine about just untarring a tgz file. It might trash a system.
- scan
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Scan a tgz file for fields. Has to scan the filename for most of the information, since there is little useful metadata in the file itself.
- unpack
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Unpack tgz.
- prep
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Adds a populated install directory to the build tree.
- build
-
Build a tgz.
AUTHOR
Joey Hess <[email protected]>