Re: Updating the ports collection that came with the OS

Chris,

Both methods work fine for ports collections installed along with the OS. Just running "portsnap fetch update" will your the ports directory.

--Matt

> On Jul 2, 2014, at 11:31 PM, Chris Stankevitz <chrisstankevitz@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Please correct any false statements:
> 
> 1. I installed FreeBSD 10
> 
> 2. During installation I installed the ports collection
> 
> 3. The handbook describes in "Section 5.5, Procedure 5.1" how to
> install the ports collection using Portsnap in case I skipped item (2)
> 
> 4. The handbook describes in "Section 5.5, Procedure 5.2" how to
> install the ports collection using SVN in case I skipped item (2).
> 
> 5. "Section 5.5, Procedure 5.1" also describes how to update the ports
> collection using the Portsnap method
> 
> 6. "Section 5.5, Procedure 5.2" also describes how to update the ports
> collection using the SVN method
> 
> 7. Nowhere does the handbook describe how to update the ports
> collection when it was installed along with the OS (using neither
> Portsnap nor SVN).
> 
> Thank you,
> 
> Chris
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