Module util

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Contains miscellaneous helper utilities.

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apt_is_locked: Checks if any locks are currently active for the lockfile. Note that this will only return true if the current process has an active lock, while calls to apt_lock will return an AptErrors if another process has an active lock.
apt_lock: Lock the APT lockfile. This should be done before modifying any APT files such as with crate::cache::Cache::update and then apt_unlock should be called after.
apt_lock_inner: Unlock the Dpkg lockfile. This should be done before manually running crate::cache::Cache::do_install and then apt_unlock_inner should be called after.
apt_unlock: Unlock the APT lockfile.
apt_unlock_inner: Unlock the Dpkg lockfile.
cmp_versions: Compares two package versions, ver1 and ver2. The returned enum variant applies to the first version passed in.
get_apt_progress_string: Get an APT-styled progress bar.
show_broken_pkg: Reference implementation to print broken packages just like apt does.
terminal_height: Get the terminal’s height, i.e. the number of rows it has.
terminal_width: Get the terminal’s width, i.e. the number of columns it has.
time_str: Converts seconds into a human readable time string.
unit_str: Converts bytes into human readable output.