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What is Tinderbox

Tinderbox is a package building system for FreeBSD ports, based on official Portbuild scripts used on pointyhat building cluster. Tinderbox was written by Joe Marcus Clarke.

You can define multiple jails (base system versions) and multiple portstrees. The combination of jail and portstree is called a build. A Tinderbox jail is not what is understood as a jail in FreeBSD, it is in fact a given world in a chroot. Tinderbox supports automatic tracking of dependencies and only rebuilds packages that changed since last run. Tinderbox has support for email notification of failed builds. Tinderbox also integrates well with ccache.

Tinderbox is designed to easily provide package sets of ports you need, for platforms and architectures you need. Tinderbox is also excellent tool for testing new ports and port upgrades, especially for testing dependencies and packing lists. It's also useful for testing ports on various releases of FreeBSD, since you can run FreeBSD 7.X, 8.X, and 9.X world as a jail on a FreeBSD 9.X (and 10.X) host.

Tinderbox is written in Perl, uses MySQL or PostgreSQL as data storage and PHP for optional web front-end. You need the DBD::Mysql (or DBD::Pg for Postgres) perl module, MySQL 4.1 or newer or PostgreSQL 7.4 or newer, PHP with php4-mysql (php4-pgsql for Postgres) extension and PEAR::DB classes installed.

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See the Tinderbox README (en español) for detailed instructions on setting up and using Tinderbox.

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tinderbox-3.4.1.tar.gz (2011-11-20) Bug fix release:

Hot on the heels of Tinderbox 3.4 comes Tinderbox 3.4.1. This is a bugfix release to address some of the problems reported since 3.4 left the station. This release includes the following changes.

• **HEADS UP** A static data change is included in this release, so be sure to run tc Upgrade.
• Sync README the latest DocBook source
• Fix the make distribution build on recent versions of FreeBSD
• Add support for Subversion to create and update Jail source trees and PortsTrees
• Complete the merge of TEST_DEPENDS
• Optimize a logfile error pattern to eliminate a false positive
• Use correct variable name to allow a user to change the Email On Completion checkbox belatedly
• Fix several PHP warnings for webui users with restricted permissions
• Fix PHP warning in case of a login attempt with wrong user credentials
• Make LIMIT clause working with MySQL and PostgreSQL
• Fix several PHP warnings in Tinderd Administration view for users without permissions for all available builds

The contributors to this release were Beat Gätzi, Alain Petignat, John Marino, Chris Rees, and Mykola Dzham.

tinderbox-3.4.tar.gz (2011-10-29) Bug fix and feature release:

It's here at last! Tinderbox 3.4 has been released. This release includes the following changes.

• **HEADS UP** A static data change is included in this release, so be sure to run tc Upgrade.
• Add support for build groups to allow for adding ports to multiple Builds at the same time.
• New documentation build from DocBook so that the text README and website README are in sync.
• Support for FreeBSD 10.X.
• Add the ability to compress log files with bzip2. This is an optional feature (default is off) which can be enabled by setting the LOG_COMPRESSLOGS configuration option.
• Add the possibility to delete existing WRKDIR tarball when the build is successful.
• Modify the WebUI code to show, for each failed port, a link to this tarball, if the tarball exists.
• Add a new contributed postPortBuild Hook to help optimize mass builds.
• Stderr is piped to /dev/null if debugging is not enabled.
• Add support for MySQL 5.4 and 5.5
• Add support for TEST_DEPENDS.
• Add new Hooks for pre and post checksum validation.
• Allow all ports for a given Build to be added to the BuildPortsQueue if the -d argument is omitted when calling addBuildPortsQueueEntry.
• Add support for perl5.10.
• Add UNIX domain socket support for connecting to the database.
• Bump the ports_tree_name field to 255 characters.
• Add links to requeue a port to the tinderd queue.
• Add hooks to the configuration page. The patch lists all of the hooks and leaves the unused ones with an empty command.
• Sort builds in drop down menu alphabetically.
• Add the number of duds to the webui frontends.
• Only show builds in the drop down menu for which the user has permissions to add new queue entries.
• Add functionality to add more than one port at a time via the tinderd queue view.
• A number of other fixes and cleanups.
• Fix some variable initialization issues in the webui
• Allow Jails and Builds to be removed when BuildPortsQueue entries exist

This release includes contributions by Beat Gätzi, John Marino, Sevan, Chris Rees, Ion-Mihai Tetcu, Bernhard Froehlich, Ade Lovett, Jason Helfman, Alberto Villa, Gabor Pali, Olli Hauer, Wesley Shields, Joe Horn, Dmitriy Kirhlarov, b.f., Steve Wills, Martin Wilke, Joseph S. Atkinson, Alexey V. Degtyarev, Mark Johnston, Christopher Key, Gerald Pfeifer, Philip M. Gollucci, Koop Mast, and Alex Dupre.

tinderbox-3.3.tar.gz (2009-11-27) Bug fix and feature release:

Tinderbox 3.3 is now available. This release is a bug fix and new featuer release. The changes include the following.

• **HEADS UP** A static data change is included this release, so be sure to run tc Upgrade.
• A new unified logging system has been added so that all log files can be centralized in one location. See the README for more details on enabling this feature.
• A collection of user-contributed Hooks has been added. So far only two Hooks are included. See the contrib/hooks subdirectory for more details. Also, feel free to submit your Hook ideas.
• The /proc directory is now ignored when checking for leftovers. This fixes some false-positives when running multiple builds in parallel.
• MySQL 6.0 is now supported.
• The SRCBASE environment variable is now unset in portbuild to prevent environment pollution.
• Support for using lftp to fetch binary release distributions for Jails has been added. This can seriously cut down on Jail prep time.
• It is now fatal if a port cannot be added to the BuildPortsQueue.
• Make it harder for users to shoot themselves in the foot by adding a disclaimer to addJail instructing users to use createJail instead.
• Leading and trailing whitespace are now trimmed from Jail, Build, and PortsTree descriptions.
• Canonicalize port directory names to prevent them from showing up as dir/../otherdir in the webui.
• Correct a typo which broke copyBuild for packages.
• Switch from using cvsup12 as the default cvsup server to cvsup18.
• Fix the dead symlink removal code to be consistent with the latest find(1) support.
• Add support for FreeBSD 9.X as a Jail.
• It is now possible for tbcleanup to leave ports which have error logs associated with them.
• A potential command line overflow in tbcleanup has been fixed.
• Support for multiple Jail build jobs has been added as well as the -DNO_CLEAN flag. This can help speed up Jail builds.
• Perl 5.10 is now supported.
• PEAR-MDB2 is now required, and register_globals is not.
• The postPortsTreeUpdate and postJailUpdate Hooks are now run while the file systems are still mounted.
• The postPortsTreeUpdate Hook is fatal once again.
• The result of getDbInfo is now properly checked so the database is not configured if there is no access.
• A corner case where cleaning up mounts may kill off processes it should not has been corrected. This fix requires lsof to be installed on the Tinderbox host system.
• A memory consumption issue with webui and large number of ports has been corrected by adding a variable, list_limit_nr to control the number of ports shown. This limit is disabled by default.
• The webui is now E_ALL safe.
• RSS feeds are now generated per maintainer, and a drop-down menu for feeds has been added to the homepage.
• The column headers are now clickable to allow for sorting.
• Read-only access is now granted to everyone for the tinderd queue view.
• "All really Build Failures" has been renamed to "All Failures".
• A link to All Build Failures and All Failures has been added to the latest_buildports page.
• A misuse of the TRIM function has been fixed for Postgres databases.
• Maintainer email addresses are now normalized to lowercase.
• Fix a bug with addPort -a where the first Build's SRCBASE would be used for all subsequent Builds.
• Fix the webui so that the domain of all maintainer addresses are assumed to be lowercase.

This contributors to this release were Martin Wilke, Ion-Mihai Tetcu, Ade Lovett, Oliver Lehmann, Beat Gaetzi, Koop Mast, Dmitry Morozovsky, Alexander Loginov, Tom Judge, Philip M. Gollucci, Tom McLaughlin, Alexey V. Degtyarev, xorquewasp at googlemail.com, and Wesley Shields.

tinderbox-3.2.tar.gz (2009-02-24) Bug fix and feature release:

Tinderbox 3.2 is now available. This release is a new feature and bug fix release primarily focused on enhancing the web interface. The changes include the following.

• A new tc function, tbversion has been added to print the version of Tinderbox. This command relies on a ${pb}/.version file which is generated when the Tinderbox release distribution is created. Be sure to copy this file if you copy the contents of the Tinderbox release to another location.
• Log file markup support has been added. Log files can be viewed with certain patterns colorized to make them easier to spot (e.g. GCC warnings). Currently, the list of patterns is not easily changeable, but a facility to add new patterns is forthcoming.
• A new tc function, copyBuild has been added which allows one to copy attributes (e.g. env files, ports, packages, etc.) from one Build to another.
• Quiet tinderd if a port in the queue does not exist.
• The log file header lines in port build logs have been reordered for easier (human) reading.
• Fix a bug with Postgres in that psql wants to output space-delimited results by default, and this can mess up upgrades.
• A -u argument has been added to addBuildPortsQueueEntry so that a username can be set for a queue entry.
• The addBuildPortsQueueEntry command now looks up users by both name and ID. This fixes a bug where tinderd doesn't send Build completion mail.
• The error spit out by listBuildPortsQueue when the queue is empty has been removed.
• Two new inc_tinderbox config variables have been added: reload_interval_latest and reload_interval_current which allow one to set the reload interval for the Current and Latest Builds page while no port is building and while a port is building respectively.
• Some additional error checking has been added to the webui.
• A search interface has been added for searching for ports in the webui.
• Canonical PHP tags are now used instead of short tags. This makes it easier to deploy Tinderbox in various configurations.
• The tinderd queue view has been changed. The field for adding new ports is now first.
• A favicon.ico file is now shipped for the webui.
• Some other bugs have been fixed in the webui.
• The tbversion command usage has been added.
• A bug in the log file parsing code which could result in fetch failure false positives has been fixed.
• The search interface has been added to the top of the homepage.
• The Delete buttons have been moved to the top of the page.
• Some migration issues have been fixed.

The contributors to Tinderbox 3.2's development and testing are Beat Gätzi, Martin Wilke, Matt, Ion-Mihai Tetcu, Frank Wall, Boris Samorodov, Cory R. King, and Aron Schlesinger.

!!!NOTE!!!This release includes a schema change, so be sure to run the following before using 3.2:

./tc Upgrade

tinderbox-3.1.2.tar.gz (2008-11-16) Bug fix and minor feature release:

After a rough start to 3.1, things should be getting under control. Tinderbox 3.1.2 is now available with the following fixes and minor changes.

• Don't cleanup WRKDIR until after the postPortBuild Hook has run.
• Fix resetBuild in a nullfs environment.
• Fix a regression in the version path.
• Correct a tinderd typo which masked a diagnostic message.
• Show last 30 ports per page in Current and Latest Builds page. (webui)
• When sorting by Last Build Attempt in list build page sort descending -- latest built first. (webui)

The main contributor and tester of this release was Ion-Mihai Tetcu.

tinderbox-3.1.1.tar.gz (2008-11-10) Bug fix release:

This is a brown paper bag release that fixes a problem loading the upgrade schema. Users that have already managed to upgrade to 3.1 do not need to upgrade to 3.1.1.

tinderbox-3.1.tar.gz (2008-11-10) Bug fix and feature release:

The Tinderbox team is pleased to announce the availability of Tinderbox 3.1. This release brings many bug fixes and some new features, particularly with the webui frontend.

• The tinderd.sh rc.d script has been renamed tinderd, and modernized. See the README for more details.
• A tinderd_debug option has been added to the tinderd rc.d script to control whether or not to write output to /dev/null.
• Add a new tinderd config option, TINDERD_LOGFILE. When this is set, all tinderbuild output from a tinderd cycle will be appended to this logfile. By default, the logfile is /dev/null.
• Reintroduce user permissions functionality in the webui from 2.x.
• Add RSS support for the latest_buildports view (webui).
• Add buttons to tinderd queue view to remove all or all built entries from the queue (webui).
• Automatically set rootdir and wwwrooturi variable (webui).
• Show target port of current build (webui).
• Fix a slew of Postgres upgrade and install bugs. Note: not all upgrade bugs have been fixed. The schema changes in 3.1 may need to be applied manually to Postgres databases.
• Fix a case where a failed build could lead to false-positive leftovers.
• Fix a regression where the wrong module name was used. This broke tinderd configuration.
• Prevent dereferencing a null value in the Build Ports Queue code when a port is no longer associated to a Build.
• Fix rescanPorts' command line arguments, and allow it to be invoked as a shell command.
• Use the installed Jail's /usr/share/mk directory when doing a make distribution. This fixes a Jail build of 7.X on recent -CURRENT.
• Add -k to the conig-recursive command so that it doesn't die if one chooses to skip a port.
• Don't make it fatal if the rm of the directory fails in cleanDir. This may very well fail if the target is a mount point.
• Some setup steps in the README have been clarified.

!!!NOTE!!!This release includes a schema change, so be sure to run the following before using 3.1:

./tc Upgrade

The contributors to this release are Beat Gätzi, Ion-Mihai Tetcu, Aron Schlesinger, Alexander Logvinov, Wesley Shields, Martin Wilke, and Boris Samorodov.

tinderbox-3.0.1.tar.gz (2008-09-07) Bug fix release:

The first Tinderbox 3.0 bug fix release is now available. Since I knew we didn't get much Postgres testing done during beta, this release aims to address some Postgres problems as well as some other general bug fixes. Changes include:

• Merge the message from Tinderbox 2.x when the tinderd queue is empty.
• Add o and O to the list of valid options for addPort.
• Merge a patch from Tinderbox 2.x which fixes tinderd when using PostgreSQL.
• Fix PostgreSQL installation.
• Fix some HTML issues in webui.

The contributors to this release are Beat Gätzi, Max Brazhnikov, and Frank Wall.

tinderbox-3.0.0.tar.gz (2008-08-27) Major new release:

It's here! Finally! The Tinderbox team is ecstatic about the release of 3.0. This release represents a massive amount of work that started two years, ten months ago when Ade Lovett made the first commit after the TINDERBOX_2_X branch. While a lot of the work on the 3.0 branch was committed back to 2.x, this release offers quite a few exciting new features as well as massive code cleanups and internal improvements. Changes in 3.0 include:

• The www-exp module has been renamed webui, and a new web frontend has been added called paefchen.
• All Tinderbox commands with the exception of tinderd are now performed using the tc utility.
• The Hosts system has been removed as it was not really used, and not really suited to the purpose of distributed builds. The ground work has been laid to support distributed builds, but that is not present in 3.0.
• A DISTFILE_URI config directive has been introduced to allow for distributed distfile caches.
• The latest port fail reasons and patterns have been synced from pointyhat.
• The total size taken by a port build (in KB) is now tracked in the database. This can be obtained using the command tc getPortTotalSize -d DIRECTORY -b BUILD.
• Port build logs now contain OPTIONS and environment details.
• The tc addPort command assumes a recursive add by default. This can be disabled by passing the -R argument.
• Port dependencies are now recorded in the database when tc addPort is called without -R. The dependency list can be retrieved with tc getDependenciesForPort -d DIRECTORY -b BUILD.
• The tc tbcleanup command now supports pruning stale distfiles, stale packages, and not pruning old error logs. See the README for command line details.
• The default update type and update host are configurable at Setup and Upgrade time. The default update type has been changed from CVSUP to CSUP.
• The last_fail_reason is now exported to the postPortBuild Hook.
• Fix the build time display if a tinderbuild takes longer than 24 hours.
• Add a new command, tc rescanPorts which updates the properties of all ports in the datastore (including dependencies).
• Display the remake count in the webui frontends.
• Hack around a potential Perl-related leftover false positive.
• A new -O option has been added to addPort/rescanPorts which enables OPTIONS, but does not run rmconfig before calling config. This way, existing OPTIONS can be preserved. The default behavior is to call rmconfig to maintain POLA.
• The webui index page has been enhanced to make it more readable, and more powerful.
• The number of ports not built due to dependency failures has been added to the webui's main page.
• tc processLog -v now prints the matching text to aid with false positive identification.

To setup a new Tinderbox 3.0 installation, extract the .tar.gz file into your port build root, then run tc Setup. If you are upgrading from Tinderbox 2.x, you can extract the .tar.gz to your port build root, then run tc Upgrade. Everything except port_fail_reasons and port_fail_patterns should be migrated.

!!!BE SURE TO READ THE README BEFORE UPGRADING!!!

Tinderbox 3.0 would not have been possible without the hard work of Ade Lovett. Other contributors include Aron Schlesinger (paefchen web frontend), Martin Wilke (testing, bug fixes, feature requests), Ion-Mihai Tetcu (feature requests), and Beat Gätzi (new webui maintainer).

We would also like to thank our testers and those who submitted bug reports and various other patches during the 3.0 beta: Frank Wall, Rink Springer, and Martin Tournoij.

tinderbox-2.4.3.tar.gz (2008-06-02) Bug fix and minor release:

• Treat the -u argument to sendBuildCompletionMail as a username rather than an arbitrary database ID. Also, do better error checking in case a user has not been defined in the datastore.
• Add -b <build name> support to the listBuildPortsQueue command.
• Add a new tc command, getPortLastBuiltStatus to get a port's last status.
• Properly quote the UPDATE_CMD argument in the *PortsTreeUpdate hooks.
• Add a new tbkill.sh tool to terminate a running tinderbuild.
• Add a new tinderbuild option, -norebuild, which will prevent tinderbuild from forcing a rebuild of any packages specified on the command line.
• Add the build platform and release level to the logs.
• Add support for listing total ports per Build in the www-exp frontend.
• Some other minor bugs have been fixed.

This release would not have been possible without the contributions of Alexander Loginov, miwi, Chess Griffin, itetcu, Dmitriy Kirhlarov, Robert Gogolok, and ade.

tinderbox-2.4.2.tar.gz (2007-12-18) Bug fix release:

• Add support for FreeBSD 8.X.
• Fix a database query bug.
• Ensure the .env files are properly read and export when building the Makefile and database entries.
• Use the C locale when calculating build times.
• Do not die if a Build's log directory is missing when running tbcleanup.

This release comes with a rawenv change, so make sure you copy rawenv.dist to rawenv to get the latest variables.

This release would not have been possible without the patches and testing from Ade Lovett, Wesley Shields, Boris Samorodov, and Alexander Logvinov.

tinderbox-2.4.1.tar.gz (2007-09-03) Bug fix release:

• Sync with the latest applicable pointyhat changes. This includes extraneous UID and GID checking.
• Support for creating per-Jail make.conf and src.conf files is supported. These files should live in ${tb}/jails/JAIL, and are used for the Jail builds. You will still need to use Hooks to populate custom make.conf files in your Builds.
• Sorting now works properly in the www-exp frontend.
• Hooks that contain arguments with spaces can now be properly executed.
• Various other bug fixes have gone in as well.

This release would not have been possible without the contributions by Dmitriy Kirhlarov and Alexander Logvinov (and, of course, pointyhat and Kris).

tinderbox-2.4.0.tar.gz (2007-07-18) New feature release:

• Hooks : A hook is a "callout" which gives Tinderbox the ability to run custom code at pre-determined times. For example, you can establish a Hook to run just before a Port is built, after a Build is extracted, before a PortsTree is updated, etc. Pre-condition hooks can even cause an operation to terminate if so desired. The new commands to manipulate Hooks are tc listHooks and tc updateHookCmd.
• OPTIONS processing : If you enable OPTIONS support in Tinderbox, you can have tc addPort automatically prompt you to configure OPTIONS. Just run tc addPort with the new -o argument, and you will be prompted with the usual dialog(1) screen to configure OPTIONS. OPTIONS configuration will happen recursively if the -r argument is specified, and non-recursively otherwise.
• Failed dependents tracking : If a port fails to build, it will update the datastore for all of its dependents so that they will be reported as pseudo-failed. That is, they will have a unique appearance in the www-exp frontend to indicate that they were not built because a dependency failed.
• Port build duration is tracked and an estimated time to completion is now shown in the www-exp frontend. Here is an example.
• The /usr/X11R6 symlink is now ignored and not treated as a leftover.
• The Tinderbox www-exp index page informs users that cookies are required to use Tinderbox.

Note: This release comes with a pretty hefty schema change, so one must run upgrade.sh to add the new schema elements.

This release would not be possible without the contributions and feedback from Edwin Groothius, Tom Mclaughlin, Diane Bruce, Pav Lucistnik, Florent Thoumie, Martin Wilke and Alexander Logvinov.

tinderbox-2.3.6.tar.gz (2007-05-19) Bug fix release:

This release address the change of X11BASE from /usr/X11R6 to /usr/local. A few other bugfixes are also included. All users are encouraged to upgrade. When you do, you will have to manually copy rawenv.dist to rawenv to get the X11BASE change to take effect.

tinderbox-2.3.5.tar.gz (2007-02-26) Bug fix and new feature release:

• No longer disable malloc debugging in Jails (only affects -CURRENT Jails by default).
• Sync with the new -CURRENT mount commands.
• Properly support alternate LOCALBASE and X11BASE values throughout the build process.
• Fix a bug where uninitialized variables might be referenced in portbuild.
• Sync with pointyhat to allow for longer build executions and larger file sizes.
• Sync the log file analysis code with pointyhat to provide better hints as to why failures are occurring.
• Make sure the environment is clean when generating Makefiles.
• Handle the upcoming merged mtree structure.
• Handle the upcoming fontconfig 2.4 upgrade.
• Fix a bug where stale Build Ports could cause tinderd to fail.

Note: this release includes a micro dsversion bump, so you must run the upgrade.sh to ensure your database static data is up-to-date.

The Tinderbox team would like to thank Diane Bruce, Tim Bishop, Maxime Henrion (mux), Alexander Logvinov, and Florent Thoumie (flz) for their contributions to this release.

tinderbox-2.3.4.tar.gz (2006-11-28) Bug fix and new feature release:

• A performance bug with tbcleanup that was introduced in 2.3.3 has been fixed.
• The portbuild environment is now scrubbed to prevent pollution. This greatly helps in producing the same packages as pointyhat.
• The HOME environment variable is initialized to /root to fix certain false positive leftover problems.
• If a port fails to build, the Build is reinitialized before the next port build is started (unless -noclean is passed to tinderbuild) to prevent pollution.
• All the new failure patterns have been merged from pointyhat. This will produce much more accurate failure analysis.
• A new feature has been added to support introducing custom OPTIONS into port builds. Consult the README for more details.
• With the start of Xorg 7.x merge testing, port problems are being found due to the move to LOCALBASE. Therefore, Tinderbox needs an easy way to set non-standard LOCALBASE and X11BASE. This has been addressed in 2.3.4. To make use of this feature you must either copy rawenv.dist to rawenv, or add LOCALBASE and X11BASE variables to your rawenv file. For example:

• LOCALBASE=/usr/local
  X11BASE=/usr/X11R6
  

  When you want to run a build with non-standard LOCALBASE and/or X11BASE paths, just change rawenv, then start your build.

Note: this release includes a micro dsversion bump, so you must run the upgrade.sh to ensure your database static data is up-to-date.

The Tinderbox team would like to thank Marcus Alves Grando (mnag), Alexander Nedotsukov (bland), Erwin Lancing (erwin), and Pav Lucistnik (pav) for their input on this release.

tinderbox-2.3.3.tar.gz (2006-10-28) Bug fix release:

• Dependencies on Perl modules that are found in Perl 5.8.8 have been removed.
• The GConf hacks have been modified to account for the GNOME move from X11BASE to LOCALBASE.
• Support for using csup (if present) instead of cvsup has been added.
• The create script no longer matches on substrings of Tinderbox object names.
• The maximum file size limit has been increased from 300 MB to 600 MB to account for newer versions of OpenOffice.org.
• The buggy concurrent locking code for distfile caching in portbuild has been replaced with a more reliable implementation using lockf.
• Emails for ports not in the datastore now contain the correct log file name.
• Emails sent for a Postgres-backed Tinderbox now contain the correct log file name.
• tb cleanup now mounts portstrees before performing the cleanup operation.
• A bug where the -r flag was not being correctly passed to mount(8) has been fixed.
• More Postgres incompatibilities have been fixed.

Contributors to this release were Tom McLaughlin (tmclaugh), Oliver Lehmann (oliver), Boris Samorodov <bsam at ipt.ru>, and Erwin Lansing (erwin).

tinderbox-2.3.2.tar.gz (2006-07-04) Bug fix an minor feature release:

• Documentation has been added for the various .env files.
• The build process has been brought in closer sync with pointyhat.
• Overall dependency handling has been improved.
• tc addPort now properly updates ports that already exist in the datastore.
• tc tbcleanup does a better job of cleaning up.
• Support has been added for custom cvsweb URLs.
• Various grammar problems have been fixed.

Contributors to this release are Aaron Dalton (aaron), Shaun Amott (shaun), Oliver Lehmann (oliver), Ade Lovett (ade), and Pav Lucistnik (pav).

tinderbox-2.3.1.tar.gz (2006-04-22) Bug fix and minor feature release:

• Fix a bug in PHP 4 that caused dates to contain negative numbers (www-exp frontend only).
• Import the latest pointyhat build code so that the build process is now more pedantic.
• Fix a bug where an alternate cvsup program could not be successfully specified.
• Make leftover detection more robust.
• Other minor debugs have been fixed.

Besides the great effort by Tinderbox committers, the Tinderbox team would like to start thanking contributors to the various releases. First, we would like to acknowledge Edwin Groothuis who contributed a great deal to previous releases, especially to the www-exp frontend.

Contributors to this release were Andreas Kohn <andreas at syndrom23.de> and Ion-Mihai Tetcu <itetcu at people.tecnik93.com>.

tinderbox-2.3.0.tar.gz (2006-02-04) Bug fix and new feature release:

• Support for the X.Org 6.9.0 mtree layout has been added.
• A message is now printed to the user once tinderbuild enters its cleanup phase. This should hopefully prevent people from hitting Control+C too much, and causing an incomplete cleanup.
• Many Postgres incompatibilities have been fixed.
• The Latest Builds page is now auto-refreshed every 15 seconds while there is an active build, and every 5 minutes when no build is running (www-exp front-end only).
• You can now sort the Build Ports columns (www-exp front-end only).
• The duration of a port build is now displayed via the web (www-exp front-end only).
• More directories (e.g. /usr/local/www) are now checked for leftovers.
• Alternate cvsup programs (e.g. csup) can now be specified for updating Jails and PortsTrees.
• Various other bugs have been fixed.

tinderbox-2.2.1.tar.gz (2005-12-24) Bug fix release:

• Fix a bug where linprocfs was being unmounted by linux_base thus causing Java ports to fail.
• Fix a bug that cause enterbuild to report that the given Build did not exist.
• Increase filesize limit to 300 MB to accommodate OpenOffice distfiles.

tinderbox-2.2.0.tar.gz (2005-12-09) Bug fix and feature release:

• Tinderbox now provides reasons why a port build may have failed, and these reasons can be displayed using the www-exp frontend. A new -nolog option was added to tinderbuild to turn this feature off.
• There is a new -onceonly option to tinderbuild that disables the phase 2 tinderbuild pass.
• A new -trybroken flag was added to tinderbuild to build ports that are marked BROKEN.
• A new -jobs flag was added to tinderbuild to control how many parallel make jobs are spawned during a build.
• Ports that are marked as IGNORE (or otherwise duds) are now properly displayed as such in the www-exp frontend.
• A new script called enterbuild has been added to drop into a running build just before a port is built for purposes of in-depth troubleshooting. See the README for more details.
• A bell character ('\007') is printed at the end of a tinderbuild to alert the user the build has completed.
• Various bugs have been fixed.

Latest Tinderbox sources can be checked out from anonymous CVS at marcuscom.com. Get instructions for anonymous access or browse CVSweb. Tinderbox lives in portstools module.

Upgrade Instructions

Consult the README for instructions for upgrading to the latest version of Tinderbox.

NOTE FOR USERS UPGRADING FROM TINDERBOX 2.0: The user password encryption algorithm has changed. You must regenerate all user passwords after upgrading to 2.1.0 or later.

Tinderbox Users

Public installations

i386 GNOME 2 Packages

amd64 GNOME 2 Packages

Personal installations

Pav Lucistnik, Florent Thoumie, Tom McLaughlin, Jeremy Messenger, Mario Sergio Fujikawa Ferreira, Michael Johnson, Kirill Ponomarew, Michael L. Hostbaek, Oliver Lehmann, Erwin Lansing

Acknowledgments

Tinderbox would not be where it is today without the invaluable contributions of Michael L. Hostbaek, Oliver Lehmann, Ade Lovett, Pav Lucistnik, and Jeremy Messenger.

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