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WHAT IS IT?
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xbps - xtraeme's binary package ystem.
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xbps is a new binary package system, taken ideas from other free available
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implementations, such as dpkg/apt, RPM, pacman and others. Metadata handling
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as package databases are handled by proplib. Multiple compression formats
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are supported in binary packages thanks to libarchive.
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xbps has been designed for Linux, and for the moment I'm not interested to
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make it work on any other random OS. xbps is the base to create a basic
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Linux system.
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REQUIREMENTS
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xbps uses proplib, a property container object library and it's almost the
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same one available for NetBSD. Be sure to have it installed before using
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xbps. You can get it at:
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http://code.google.com/p/portableproplib/
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I'm also the human maintaining the portable proplib package. I'd suggest you
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to install it into /usr/local to avoid issues with your distribution packages.
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To build the xbps utils, you'll need:
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* acl (devel pkg with static lib)
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* zlib (devel pkg with static lib)
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* bzip2 (devel pkg with static lib)
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* xz (devel pkg with static lib)
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* libarchive (devel pkg with static lib, all features built in)
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* proplib (devel pkg with static lib, see above)
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HOW TO USE IT
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Before using xbps, some required utilities need to be built and installed
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into $(PREFIX); by default they are installed into /usr/local.
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You can do this by issuing "make" and "make install" as root in the top
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level directory. See the REQUIREMENTS section above for required packages.
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To build binary packages, you need xbps-src. It's stored in a public GIT
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repository located at:
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http://repo.or.cz/w/xbps.git
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For information about binary packages, see the BINPKG_INFO file.
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Juan Romero Pardines <xtraeme@gmail.com>
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