Reference

Cache::Apt::Config(3)

Configuration handler for apt-cross and related tools

Name

Cache::Apt::Config - Configuration handler for apt-cross and related tools

Description

Extensively modified portion of NorthernCross using only the Config and Lookup modules and exposing the package details using a dedicated struct.

Copyright and Licence

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 Copyright (C) 2006, 2007  Neil Williams <[email protected]>
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 Copyright (c) 2006, 2007  Alexander Shishkin <[email protected]>


 This package is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
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 the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or
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 This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
 but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
 MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
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set_download_mode

Add Apt configuration options to the current configuration to set Apt::Get::Assume-Yes, Apt::Get::Print-URI, Apt::Get::Download-only ready to identify the location of files needing to be downloaded from apt sources.

get_cache_architecture

Reimplemented from dpkg-cross to remove an extra dependency.

check_cache_arch($arch)

Reimplemented from dpkg-cross to remove an extra dependency.

Checks that the supplied $arch is (or can be converted to) a DEB_HOST_GNU_TYPE that is known to dpkg-architecture. Sets the module $arch variable as a side-effect.

returns the DPKG_HOST_GNU_TYPE or undef

set_suite($suite)

Override the &get_suite default to set a specific repository codename that must be supported by all sources in your sources.list.

get_sourceslist ()

Returns the name of the current sources list file.

use_mysources ($sources_file)

Specify that the cache can only use the specified sources.list file instead of collating a complete set of sources from the system apt configuration.

use_hostsources

Remove the override and return to the default system sources.

get_suite

Logic to identify the current suite from apt-cache policy.

This comes from emdebian-tools - migrate to NorthernCross in due course.

get_cache_apt_version

Uses dpkg-query to retrieve the version string for the currently installed libcache-apt-perl package. Falls back to a default version if dpkg-query fails.