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Contents 1 versions 1.1 release 1.2 stable 1.3 current 2 nvidia stuff 3 ports 3.1 portsnap 3.1.1 To get started 3.1.2 To update the ports 4 Upgrading Ports 4.1 1. portupgrade 4.2 2. portmanager 4.3 3. portmaster 4.4 ports with csup

versions

http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/current-stable.html

release

stable

FreeBSD-STABLE is development, but not as bleeding edge as current.

current

FreeBSD-CURRENT is bleeding edge

nvidia stuff

http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=142120

ports

portsnap

apparently portsnap is faster than csup

http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/portsnap.html

for freebsd 6 and greater, the base system comes with portsnap.

To get started

rm -rf /usr/ports
mkdir /usr/ports
portsnap fetch
portsnap extract

To update the ports

portsnap fetch update

Upgrading Ports

It looks like there are 3 tools for upgrading ports:

1. portupgrade

2. portmanager

This one makes a backup of the old package first.

People seem to like this one.

installing:

cd /usr/ports/ports-mgmt/portmanager
make install clean

3. portmaster

This one might rebuild things unnecessarily

ports with csup

To grab ports for the first time.

csup -L 2 -h cvsup.FreeBSD.org /usr/share/examples/cvsup/ports-supfile