X Binary Package System (简称XBPS) 是二进制包管理工具,特点是快速、易用、功能丰富和可移植。
该版本修复了 libxbps模块和客户端一些内存泄漏的问题。
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 in ANSI/C99, two clause BSD licensed, and tries to be portable as possible. There is a well documented API provided by the XBPS Library that is the basis for its frontends, to handle binary packages and repositories: xbps-bin(8) and xbps-repo(8). You can see a more extended list of implemented features here.
Currently all available packages have been designed for a GNU/Linux distribution that you can easily make through XBPS, even with your favourite distribution! there are static binaries for i686 and x86_64 architectures (NOTE: the static binaries require a Linux kernel >= 2.6.27). I'll revisit support for other Operating Systems in the future, but I can't promise anything about it.
There are approximately 1400 packages that can be built, through the use of build templates that are the recipes to fetch, compile and build XBPS binary packages. However, only binary packages are currently provided for the i686 and x86_64 architectures due to lack of resources.
The latest stable version, 0.7.2, was released on December 28, 2010. You can see online the release notes (http://code.google.com/p/xbps/wiki/920.html">ReleaseNotes).
XBPS GNU/Linux live images
ISO 9660 images with a minimal base system exist for i686 and x86_64 for testing purposes, they are available at:
Filename: http://xbps.nopcode.org/live/xbps-live-x86_64-20101228.iso
Architecture:x86_64
Size: 107MB
SHA256:e6f29b003e017456b0e4b8e04d32c815f8baa4cc6760f3f1526d5dd12425a399
Please note that the ISO images use Spanish keymap and locale by default, you can change it in the boot prompt by pressing the tab key.