Obtaining ports collection

[Jim Xochellis]

Hi List,

I have a very slow connection an I want to update the ports collection 
of my FreeBSD 4.7(i386) Release box. Somehow I have managed to download 
the collection from the 
"ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/branches/-current/ports.tar.gz" and 
I have expanded it into a new "/usr/ports/" directory, renaming my old 
collection to "/usr/ports.bak/" To you think that this "trick" will 
actually work, or am I violating some rules? Is the ports collection of 
the "current" branch appropriate for my FreeBSD 4.7 box or not? Is 
there any other link from  were I should download a more appropriate 
ports collection?

Thank you very much for your time
Jim Xochellis