[DCPM] libapt-pkg-perl

[Simon Waters]

Neil Williams wrote:
> More inadequately documented perl:
> 
> http://fly.isti.cnr.it/doc/libapt-pkg-perl/examples/apt-cache
> 
> http://www.penguin-soft.com/penguin/man/3/AptPkg::Cache.html
> 
> How do I retrieve the "LongDesc" string from that lot? I can't even
> tell where to start.

I gave up the second time poking AptPkg::Cache caused my system to hang,
and become unresponsive to anything but "ping".

Weird, this sort of thing just shouldn't happen running scripts as an
ordinary user. I'm sure Data::Dumper is doing something horribly
recursive, or snaffling memory too quickly.

Never seen anything like that running Perl before?

-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: signature.asc
Type: application/pgp-signature
Size: 288 bytes
Desc: OpenPGP digital signature
Url : http://mail.pm.org/pipermail/devoncornwall-pm/attachments/20061227/892b0ab2/attachment.bin