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WHAT IS IT?
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xbps - xtraeme's build package system.
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It is a simple build package system that installs packages inside of
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a chroot in a destination directory. Once the package has been installed
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into this directory, you can make it appear/unappear at the master directory
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at any time. It's in spirit the same than GNU stow, but the files are just
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copied (there are no soft/hard links).
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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. I've been a NetBSD developer for some
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years and I do not want to come back... also the experience has helped to
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me to start xbps and not to use pkgsrc, which is very portable but also
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not so fast.
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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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Additionally the following software is required to be able to build and install
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xbps binary/source packages:
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* GNU GCC C++
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* GNU Make
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* fakeroot
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* wget
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* libarchive (development package)
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* perl
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* sudo
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Super-user privileges are required as well, because all packages are built
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in a chroot (except the ones that are included in a virtual package to be
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able to build a minimal system for the chroot).
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PLEASE NOTE THAT fakechroot or fakeroot-ng DO NOT WORK.
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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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Once the xbps distfiles are installed into prefix, you can start building
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packages from source, add local repositories with binary packages, install or
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remove them, etc.
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If you are only interested in building/using packages from source, see the
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SRCPKG_INFO file.
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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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