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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: 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: and optionally:
- graphviz and doxygen (--with-api-docs) to build API documentation. - graphviz and doxygen (--with-api-docs) to build API documentation.
- atf >= 0.15 (--with-tests) to build the Kyua test suite [2]. - atf >= 0.15 (--with-tests) to build the Kyua test suite [2].
Just run ./configure && make && make install. By default PREFIX is set ### Build instructions
to `/usr/local', can be changed by setting --prefix. The DESTDIR variable
is also supported for package managers. 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 There are some more options that can be tweaked, see them with
`./configure --help'. `./configure --help'.