void-packages | The Void source packages collection

Clone the void-packages git repository and install the bootstrap packages:.
There is a set of packages that makes up the initial build container, called the bootstrap. These packages are installed into the masterdir in order to create the container. The primary and recommended way to set up this container is using the binary-bootstrap command. This will use pre-existing binary packages, either from remote xbps repositories or from your local repository. There is also the bootstrap command, which will build all necessary bootstrap packages from scratch. This is usually not recommended, since those packages are built using your host system's toolchain and are neither fully featured nor reproducible (your host system may influence the build) and thus should only be used as a stage 0 for bootstrapping new Void systems. If you still choose to use bootstrap, use the resulting stage 0 container to rebuild all bootstrap packages again, then use binary-bootstrap (stage 1) and rebuild the bootstrap packages once more (to gain stage 2, and then use binary-bootstrap again). Once you've done that, you will have a bootstrap set equivalent to using binary-bootstrap in the first place. Also keep in mind that a full source bootstrap is time consuming and will require having an assortment of utilities installed in your host system, such as binutils, gcc, perl, texinfo and others.