Progress in *BSD world is very fast, everyday patch released, program update etc

to get that update via internet FreeBSD provide a few tools :

• cvs, not so familiar for beginner
• cvsup, very famous in FreeBSD, can update ports, source even for backup purpose
• portsnap, only for port update, in FreeBSD tree since 6.0
• csup, cvsup alternative, already integrated in 6.2 tree, no need to install, compatible with cvsup

example for cvs :

cvs -z3 -d :pserver:[email protected]:/cvs co -P freesbie2

will fetch freesbie2 and located in current directory where command issued

example for cvsup :

cvsup -g -L2 ports-supfile -h cvsup12.freebsd.org

will update ports information

example for portsnap :

portsnap update

will update ports data, faster than portsnap extract

csup example :

cvsup -g -L2 stable-supfile -h cvsup12.freebsd.org

will update stable source

P.S :

make sure port 5999/tcp open for cvsup and csup

portsnap will use port 80