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BRIEF INTRODUCTION
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A binary package built with xbps is a normal tar(1) archive, compressed
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with bzip2 and has the following structure:
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/
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/usr ------|
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/var ------| => Package structure that will be installed.
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/etc ------|
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...
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/var/db/xbps/metadata/$pkgname
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/var/db/xbps/metadata/$pkgname/files.plist
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/var/db/xbps/metadata/$pkgname/props.plist
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/var/db/xbps/metadata/$pkgname/INSTALL
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/var/db/xbps/metadata/$pkgname/REMOVE
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Metadata info is stored in the "/var/db/xbps/metadata/$pkgname"
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directory and two files will be always be present: flist and props.plist.
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The files.plist file contains the list of files/links/dirs that package
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will install, as well as SHA256 hashes for files.
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The props.plist file contains package metadata properties and has the
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following structure:
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<dict>
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<key>pkgname</key>
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<string>foo</string>
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<key>version</key>
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<string>3.40</string>
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<key>maintainer</key>
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<string>The Master BOFH <bofh@baobab.org> </string>
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<key>short_desc</key>
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<string>Foo is a virtual package</string>
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<key>long_desc</key>
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<string>
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Foo is a virtual package to show how the metadata props.plist file works
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with xbps handling binary packages.</string>
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<key>architecture</key>
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<string>x86_64</string>
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<key>installed_size</key>
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<integer>500000</integer>
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<key>configuration_files</key>
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<array>
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<string>/etc/foo.conf</string>
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...
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</array>
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<key>run_depends</key>
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<array>
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<string>bofh-2.0</string>
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<string>blab-1.1</string>
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...
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</array>
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...
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</dict>
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The INSTALL/REMOVE executables allows you to trigger any action
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at pre/post installation/removal of the binary package.
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The package's dictionary will also be written into the repository's package
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index file, that describes information about a binary package on it.
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See the BINPKG_REPOSITORY file for more info about repositories.
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HOW TO USE BINARY PACKAGES
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To install binary packages, firstly a repository must be created as well as
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some binary packages for it. The flow for this task is:
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1- xbps-src install <package>
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2- xbps-src build-pkg all [requires sudo access]
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3- xbps-repo genindex $XBPS_PACKAGES
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4- xbps-repo add $XBPS_PACKAGES
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5- xbps-bin install -r /rootdir <package>
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So the tasks are: install the package into destdir (and all its dependencies),
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build the binary package from the required package, generate the repository
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index, add the repository into the pool and install the binary package.
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Please note that by default, the xbps-* utils accept the -r flag, to specify
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the root directory for all operations, in that case the package will be
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installed into <rootdir> and metadata files into <rootdir>/var/db/xbps.
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Don't forget to set this flag if you aren't using xbps as the primary
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package manager in your system, otherwise it could overwrite some files!
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See the BINPKG_REPOSITORY file for more info about repositories for
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binary packages or SRCPKG_INFO for source packages.
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Juan Romero Pardines <xtraeme@gmail.com>
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