man:Alien::Package::Tgz(3pm)

Alien::Package::Tgz(3pUser Contributed Perl DocumentatAlien::Package::Tgz(3pm) NAME Alien::Package::Tgz — an object that represents a tgz package DESCRIPTION This is an object class that represents a tgz package, as used in Slackware. It is derived from Alien::Package. CLASS DATA scripttrans Translation table between canoical script names and the names used in tgz's. METHODS checkfile Detect tgz files by their extention. install Install a tgz with installpkg. Pass in the filename of the tgz to install. installpkg (a slackware program) is used because I'm not sanguine about just untarring a tgz file. It might trash a system. scan Scan a tgz file for fields. Has to scan the filename for most of the information, since there is little useful metadata in the file itself. unpack Unpack tgz. prep Adds a populated install directory to the build tree. build Build a tgz. AUTHOR Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> perl v5.8.8 2006-01-25 Alien::Package::Tgz(3pm)