NAME

AptPkg::Policy - APT package version policy class

SYNOPSIS

use AptPkg::Policy;

DESCRIPTION

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(VER|FILE)
Return the pin priority for the given VER (AptPkg::Cache::Version) or FILE (AptPkg::Cache::PkgFile) object.
candidate(PKG)
Returns the installation candidate version for PKG. Returns an AptPkg::Cache::Version object.

SEE ALSO

AptPkg::Cache(3pm), AptPkg(3pm).

AUTHOR

Brendan O'Dea <[email protected]>

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