Updating the FreeBSD ports collection
There has been different ways to update the FreeBSD ports collection over time.
However, this is the recommended, simple, network friendly and firewall friendly procedure for updating the FreeBSD ports collection using the portsnap utility, which updates via internet from a FreeBSD mirror.
This procedure assumes, that the ports collection has been installed prior to updating, such as a part of the system installation.
portsnap fetch && portsnap extract
This ports collection is now up to date.
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