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