XBPS A new binary package system made from scratch!
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A new binary package system made from scratch! The XBPS package system uses some ideas from other free available implementations such as dpkg (and its frontend apt-get), RPM, pacman and pkg_install from FreeBSD/NetBSD, etc. Here are some key features of "XBPS": · Packages are built in a chroot. · Simple dependency handling (minimal required version). · Metadata handling via NetBSD's proplib. See http://code.google.com/p/portableproplib/ · Multiple binary package repositories. No configuration files required. · Fast dependency handling and sorting code. · SHA256 checking of source distribution files, binary packages and installed package files. · Built-in code to find and remove package orphans. · Built-in code to upgrade packages. · Built-in code to search for packages and its information from registered repositories. · Built-in code to support INSTALL/REMOVE scripts at pre/post installation/removal of binary packages. · Built-in handling support for configuration files, i.e modified files by the user aren't removed and new files don't overwrite existing ones. · Support for noarch packages, i.e shared binary packages between different architectures. · Different compression methods of binary packages via libarchive. See http://code.google.com/p/libarchive/ · Only C code and portable shell scripting, i.e doesn't use GNU Bash or GNU libc specific features. · The C code is extensively tested via valgrind (periodically) to fix possible memleaks. Let me know if you find one! · It is able to build multiple binary packages from a single source build, also called subpackages. · Automatic compression of manual pages while building from source. · Automatic (un)registration of GNU info files in binary packages. · Support for running multiple triggers in binary packages at pre/post installation/removal of binary packages, i.e no duplicated code. · A true one man only project. All the work (code and package templates) done by myself, i.e me VS the world. What's New in This Release: · A new major version of the X Binary Package System has been released. Two months of development and more than 150 revisions in the HEAD branch have been done, this resulted in major, stability and performance changes.

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