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What's 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 0.25 was released on July 5th, 2013**.**

Do you want to try XBPS and judge by yourself? try Void Linux at http://www.voidlinux.eu

• Binary package format description.
• XBPS utilities examples and usage.
• XBPS binary package builder: xbps-src
• XBPS Library API documentation.
• XBPS Library API examples

Howto

• How to build the XBPS utilities?
• How to create a local repository with binary packages?
• How to remove package orphans?
• How to use virtual packages?

Contributing

• Join us at #xbps on irc.freenode.net.
• I'm interested in exotic hardware (mips, arm architectures) to port xbps and voidlinux (right now voidlinux can run on x86 (32/64 bits) and the Raspberry PI.
• If you think this project is helpful in any way, would you like to help the author to continue developping it? you can help him contributing a small monetary donation via paypal.

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