Year: <span>2011</span>

Year: 2011

Computing / FreeBSD

Using FreeBSD’s Tinderbox as a package builder

Tinderbox setup The machine I’m using is currently being used to test port updates. It has a bunch of jails for the -STABLE branches and a copy of the ports tree that I make changes to when testing port updates. I decided to use this machine for my package builder but this meant keeping things separated. So for package building …

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Computing

Maildirarc – a Maildir archiving tool

I keep my email in Maildir folders. It works well on the whole for every-day email, but it doesn’t work so well for large email archives (mainly because Unix systems don’t tend to cope well with folders containing a very large number of files). My system of archiving had been to simply copy messages older than a given number of …

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