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----------------------------------------------------------------------------- WHAT IS IT? ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- xbps - xtraeme's binary package ystem. xbps is a new binary package system, taken ideas from other free available implementations, such as dpkg/apt, RPM, pacman and others. Metadata handling as package databases are handled by proplib. Multiple compression formats are supported in binary packages thanks to libarchive. xbps has been designed for Linux, and for the moment I'm not interested to make it work on any other random OS. xbps is the base to create a basic Linux system. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- REQUIREMENTS ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- xbps uses proplib, a property container object library and it's almost the same one available for NetBSD. Be sure to have it installed before using xbps. You can get it at: http://code.google.com/p/portableproplib/ I'm also the human maintaining the portable proplib package. I'd suggest you to install it into /usr/local to avoid issues with your distribution packages. To build the xbps utils, you'll need: * acl (devel pkg with static lib) * zlib (devel pkg with static lib) * bzip2 (devel pkg with static lib) * xz (devel pkg with static lib) * libarchive (devel pkg with static lib, all features built in) * proplib (deve pkg with static lib, see above) Additionally the following software is required in the host system to build and install xbps binary packages: * GNU GCC C++ * GNU Make * GNU Bison * fakeroot * wget OR curl OR fetch (statically linked or no additional deps) * perl * sudo Super-user privileges are required as well, because all packages are built in a chroot (except the ones that are included in a virtual package to be able to build a minimal system for the chroot). PLEASE NOTE THAT fakechroot or fakeroot-ng DO NOT WORK. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ HOW TO USE IT ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Before using xbps, some required utilities need to be built and installed into $(PREFIX); by default they are installed into /usr/local. You can do this by issuing "make" and "make install" as root in the top level directory. See the REQUIREMENTS section above for required packages. Once the xbps distfiles are installed into prefix, you can start building packages from source, add local repositories with binary packages, install or remove them, etc. If you are only interested in building/using packages from source, see the SRCPKG_INFO file. For information about binary packages, see the BINPKG_INFO file. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Juan Romero Pardines <xtraeme@gmail.com>