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UsingFreeBSDPortsnap

Portsnap is a system for securely distributing the FreeBSD ports tree.

• From http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/portsnap.html
• Installation

On FreeBSD 6.0 and more recent versions, Portsnap is contained in the FreeBSD base system. On older versions of FreeBSD, it can be installed using the ports-mgmt/portsnap port.

• Portsnap Configuration

Portsnap's operation is controlled by the /etc/portsnap.conf configuration file. For most users, the default configuration file will suffice.

• Running Portsnap for the First Time

The first time portsnap(8) is run, it will need to download a compressed snapshot of the entire ports tree into /var/db/portsnap/ (or /usr/local/portsnap/ if Portsnap was installed from the Ports Collection). This is approximately a 41 MB download.

    portsnap fetch

    portsnap extract

    Note: In the default installation /usr/ports is not created.

• Updating the Ports Tree

After an initial compressed snapshot of the ports tree has been downloaded and extracted into /usr/ports/

   portsnap fetch update

• Some older versions of portsnap do not support this syntax; if it fails, try instead the following:

   portsnap fetch

   portsnap update