update ports from a file

[RW]

On Tue, 18 Sep 2007 11:01:37 +1000
"Mr Anderson" <anderson.gnu at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello
> 
> I have been using FreeBSD in the Univ recently and quite interesting.
> I decided to installed FreeBSD 6.2 in my laptop (I dont have internet
> connection) and now I want to install apache and other software. So, I
> downloaded
> ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/ports/ports.tar.gz and copy
> to my laptop to update ports. How do I update ports from the
> file? Right now, I have an old version of Ports, portsnap fetch does
> not work because I do not have internet
> connection, and FreeBSD does not recognize my netowrk card reader, so
> I want to do it by hand , step by step.
> 
> Any tip how to do update? Should I just unzip the file
> in /usr/ports , but previosly delete everything???


If you don't have a network connection, I would suggest you use the 
packages on the install disk.