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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 use xbps:
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* GNU Binutils
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* GNU Bison
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* GNU GCC C++ (plus GMP and MPFR) development packages.
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* GNU Gettext
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* GNU Make
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* GNU m4
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* fakeroot
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* ncurses (development package).
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* wget
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* libarchive (development package).
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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.
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Now you should edit the configuration file located in the etc directory
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in the top level directory. By default it uses the xbps directory in
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your $HOME.
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If configuration file is not specified from the command line with the
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-c flag, it will first try to use the default location at
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/usr/local/etc/xbps.conf, and as last resort in the etc directory of the
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current directory.
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To avoid problems with libtool and configure scripts finding stuff that is
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available in the host system, almost all packages must be built inside of a
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chroot. So the first thing would be to create the binary packages with:
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$ xbps-src install xbps-base-chroot
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This will build all required packages via fakeroot in masterdir, therefore you
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can run it as normal user. Next commands will require super-user privileges
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and all package handling will be done within the chroot. I believe it's the
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most easier and faster way to handle clean dependencies; another reason would
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be that xbps packages are meant to be used in a system and not just for
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ordinary users. So once all packages are built, you can create and enter
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to the chroot with:
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$ sudo xbps-src chroot
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Press Control + D to exit from the chroot. The following targets will require
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to be done in the chroot:
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build, configure, install, install-destdir, remove, stow and unstow.
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Now let's explain some more about the targets that you can use. To start
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installing packages you should use the install target:
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$ sudo xbps-src install glib
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If the package is properly installed, it will be "stowned" automatically.
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``stowned<65><64> means that this package is available in the master directory,
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on which xpbs has copied all files from DESTDIR/<pkgname>.
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To remove a currently installed (and stowned) package, you can use:
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$ sudo xbps-src remove glib
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Please note that when you remove it, the package will also be removed
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from XBPS_DESTDIR and previously "unstowned".
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To stow an already installed package (from XBPS_DESTDIR/<pkgname>):
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$ sudo xbps-src stow glib
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and to unstow an already installed (stowned) package:
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$ sudo xbps-src unstow glib
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You can also print some stuff about any template build file, e.g:
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$ xbps-src info glib
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To list installed (stowned) packages, use this:
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$ xbps-src list
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To only extract the distfiles, without configuring/building/installing:
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$ xbps-src extract foo
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To not remove the build directory after successful installation:
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$ sudo xbps-src -C install blah
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To only fetch the distfile:
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$ xbps-src fetch blah
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To only install the package, _without_ stowning it into the master directory:
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$ sudo xbps-src install-destdir blob
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To list files installed by a package, note that package must be installed
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into destination directory first:
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$ xbps-src listfiles blob
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PERFORMANCE
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xbps is really fast, trust me. That was one of my reasons to make my own
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pkgsrc/ports alike system.
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If you want benchmarks, here is one: building libX11 and all its dependencies
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required (not included building xstow) with xbps:
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251.20s real 121.36s user 53.94s system
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versus pkgsrc (make install clean clean-depends and digest previously
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installed):
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450.41s real 167.58s user 97.31s system
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That's more or less 40% faster! that's the price you pay for having those
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wrappers in pkgsrc that aren't very useful on NetBSD :-)
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Juan Romero Pardines <xtraeme@gmail.com>
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