NAME
Local::CheckDistro - Provide info about distros in preparation for installation
Synopsis
See docs for Local::Build.
Description
Local::CheckDistro is a pure Perl module.
Note: Version numbers are extracted from the file name of the distro.
Constructor and initialization
new(...) returns a Local::CheckDistro object.
This is the class's contructor.
Usage: Local::CheckDistro -> new().
Calling new() calls find_modules() which builds a hash of locally-available distros.
Method: distro_count('Some::Module')
Returns an integer.
The number of distros of the module in module_dir (from the config file).
Used to warn about multiple distros of a module.
Method: distro_exists('Some::Module')
Returns 0 or 1.
Used to ensure methods in Local::Build don't waste my time.
Method: dump()
Returns nothing.
Dump info about the modules found.
Method: find_modules()
Returns nothing.
Finds all the distros in module_dir, and hence builds a hash of locally-available distros.
Handles a few special cases.
Moves killer-app-1.00.tar.gz to killer-app-1.00.tgz.
Method: get_config()
Returns the config hash ref, which new() got a copy of from Local::Config.
Method: module_names()
Returns a sorted array ref of module names in 'Some::Module' format.
This array ref will not contain duplicates.
Method: modules()
Returns a sorted array ref of module names and versions in a nice "$name V $version" format.
Note: Version numbers are extracted from the file name of the distro.
This array ref will not contain duplicates, but a module may have more than version.
Method: specs('Some::Module')
Returns an hash ref of what's known about the first version found (i.e.: uses [0]) of the given module.
Hence assumes module_dir contains the one version you are really interested in.
To deal with this, I move other versions of distros into ./misc/.
Method: versions('Some::Module')
Returns a string of the versions found, in '1.01/1.02' format.
Required Modules
Resources
http://savage.net.au/Perl-modules/html/local-module-overview.html
Author
Local::CheckDistro was written by Ron Savage in 2006.
Home page: http://savage.net.au/index.html
Copyright
Australian copyright © 2006, Ron Savage. All rights reserved.
All Programs of mine are 'OSI Certified Open Source Software'; you can redistribute them and/or modify them under the terms of The Artistic License, a copy of which is available at: http://www.opensource.org/licenses/index.html