Updating the ports collection that came with the OS

[Matthew Pherigo]

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 at 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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