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See http://code.google.com/p/xbps for information.
## XBPS
The X Binary Package System (in short XBPS) is a new binary package system **designed and implemented from scratch**. Its goal is to be fast, easy to use, bug-free, featureful and portable as much as possible.
The XBPS code is totally compatible with POSIX/SUSv2/C99 standards, and released with a **Simplified BSD license (2 clause)**. There is a well documented API provided by the XBPS Library that is the basis for its frontends to handle binary packages and repositories. Some highlights:
* Supports multiple local and remote repositories (FTP/HTTP/HTTPS).
* SHA256 hashes for package metadata, files and binary packages.
* Supports package states (ala dpkg) to mitigate broken package installs/updates.
* Ability to resume partial package install/updates.
* Ability to unpack only files that have been modified in package updates.
* Ability to use virtual packages.
* Ability to replace packages.
* Ability to put packages on hold (to never update them. NEW in 0.16).
* Ability to preserve/update configuration files.
* Ability to force reinstallation of any installed package.
* Ability to downgrade any installed package.
* Ability to execute pre/post install/remove/update scriptlets.
* Ability to check package integrity: missing files, hashes, missing or unresolved (reverse)dependencies, dangling or modified symlinks, etc.
* Low memory footprint.
* Fast dependency resolver and sorting algorithms.
The latest stable version **0.24** was released on **May 2nd, 2013**.
### Build requirements
To build this you'll need:
- GNU make, pkg-config, zlib, openssl, libarchive[0] >= 3.0.2, confuse[1] >= 2.7.
- GNU make
- pkg-config
- zlib
- openssl
- libarchive[0] >= 3.0.2
- confuse[1] >= 2.7
and optionally:
- graphviz and doxygen (--with-api-docs) to build API documentation.
- atf >= 0.15 (--with-tests) to build the Kyua test suite [2].
Just run ./configure && make && make install. By default PREFIX is set
to `/usr/local', can be changed by setting --prefix. The DESTDIR variable
is also supported for package managers.
### Build instructions
Standard configure script (not generated by GNU autoconf).
```
./configure --prefix=/blah
make -jX
make install
```
By default PREFIX is set `/usr/local` and may be changed by setting `--prefix` in the
`configure` script. The `DESTDIR` variable is also supported at the install stage.
There are some more options that can be tweaked, see them with
`./configure --help'.