This crate provides bindings to `libapt-pkg`.

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### Documentation and Examples

See the `examples/` folder for some partial implementations of some commands.

https://docs.rs/apt-pkg-native

### License Note

While the code in this crate is available under a permissive MIT license,
  it is useless without [`libapt-pkg`](https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/apt),
  which is GPL2+.

### Building

`libapt-pkg-dev` must be installed. The [`gcc`](https://crates.io/crates/gcc)
  crate is used to try and find a native compiler.

### Thread safety

It is intended that the crate should be usable from multiple threads.
However, this is generally implemented using singletons, which may be really
annoying for your use-case.

`apt` does not have a concurrency model: you may not use threads.

Since `apt` 1.4 or 1.5 (in Debian Stretch (2017), but not in Xenial 16.04),
some operations are thread safe: it should be possible to initialise the cache
twice in parallel. As these versions of `apt` are not widespread, the API of
this crate does not attempt to expose this.

### Switching distro with `docker`

`examples/on-sid` has a docker file which builds a minimum Debian image with
typical package lists downloaded. You can run a tool in it, from this directory,
by:

```
(cd examples/on-sid && make)
docker run -v $(pwd):/mnt sid-sources-list /mnt/target/release/examples/sources
```