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 6.X world as a jail on FreeBSD 7.X/8.X host.

This port contains the devel version (either on the same branch as
ports-mgmt/tinderbox or from HEAD, depending on the status of those branches).

WWW: http://tinderbox.marcuscom.com/
Author: Joe Marcus Clarke.