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 Upgrading Ports on FreeBSD 7.x

First, update the ports tree..  See here.

Then, list outdated ports that have a newer version available in the Ports Collection with the pkg_version(1)

To update your ports, you must first install the cvsup-bin utility. You can either
download and install it using the ports tree, or you can install it from the FreeBSD
CDROM. Next, you need to modify the ports-supfile, which is used to choose a repository
site and shall determine what ports will be updated (all ports by default). Finally, you
need to execute the cvsup command and update your ports tree. In writing this article, I
assume that you already have a connection to the internet available to your FreeBSD box.

How to:

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