Thanks to everybody, i'll check it out
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The traditional way is to use
CVSup<http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/cvsup.html>,
but I prefer portsnap.
<http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/portsnap.html>
-David
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> Hello,
> I come from a Debian background, i normally 'apt-get update' the list of
> the packages that apt-get mirrors serve before 'apt-get install'ing any
> package. Is there anything like that while using FreeBSD ports? If no,
> How does ports know what are the versions of the latest packages?
>
> thanks,
> Sincerely,
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