Dpkg::Path(3perl) libdpkg-perl Dpkg::Path(3perl)
NAME
Dpkg::Path - some common path handling functions
DESCRIPTION
It provides some functions to handle various path.
FUNCTIONS
get_pkg_root_dir($file)
This function will scan upwards the hierarchy of directory to
find out the directory which contains the "DEBIAN" sub-
directory and it will return its path. This directory is the
root directory of a package being built.
If no DEBIAN subdirectory is found, it will return undef.
relative_to_pkg_root($file)
Returns the filename relative to get_pkg_root_dir($file).
guess_pkg_root_dir($file)
This function tries to guess the root directory of the package
build tree. It will first use get_pkg_root_dir(), but it will
fallback to a more imprecise check: namely it will use the
parent directory that is a sub-directory of the debian
directory.
It can still return undef if a file outside of the debian sub-
directory is provided.
check_files_are_the_same($file1, $file2, $resolve_symlink)
This function verifies that both files are the same by checking
that the device numbers and the inode numbers returned by
stat()/lstat() are the same. If $resolve_symlink is true then
stat() is used, otherwise lstat() is used.
canonpath($file)
This function returns a cleaned path. It simplifies double //,
and remove /./ and /../ intelligently. For /../ it simplifies
the path only if the previous element is not a symlink. Thus it
should only be used on real filenames.
$newpath = resolve_symlink($symlink)
Return the filename of the file pointed by the symlink. The new
name is canonicalized by canonpath().
check_directory_traversal($basedir, $dir)
This function verifies that the directory $dir does not contain
any symlink that goes beyond $basedir (which should be either
equal or a parent of $dir).
$cmdpath = find_command($command)
Return the path of the command if defined and available on an
absolute or relative path or on the $PATH, undef otherwise.
$control_file = get_control_path($pkg, $filetype)
Return the path of the control file of type $filetype for the
given package.
@control_files = get_control_path($pkg)
Return the path of all available control files for the given
package.
$file = find_build_file($basename)
Selects the right variant of the given file: the arch-specific
variant ("$basename.$arch") has priority over the OS-specific
variant ("$basename.$os") which has priority over the default
variant ("$basename"). If none of the files exists, then it
returns undef.
@files = find_build_file($basename)
Return the available variants of the given file. Returns an
empty list if none of the files exists.
CHANGES
Version 1.05 (dpkg 1.20.4)
New function: check_directory_traversal().
Version 1.04 (dpkg 1.17.11)
Update semantics: find_command() now handles an empty or undef
argument.
Version 1.03 (dpkg 1.16.1)
New function: find_build_file()
Version 1.02 (dpkg 1.16.0)
New function: get_control_path()
Version 1.01 (dpkg 1.15.8)
New function: find_command()
Version 1.00 (dpkg 1.15.6)
Mark the module as public.
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