Today I'm going to share with you the quick and easy way to keep your ports tree updated in FreeBSD. We'll also look at updating the ports themselves.

The first thing you need to do is make sure you have the cvsup and portupgrade utilities installed. You can find them at /usr/ports/net/cvsup-without-gui and /usr/ports/sysutils/portupgrade. Now that you have made sure those are installed, you need to create a ports-supfile. I like to keep mine at /usr/local/etc/ports-supfile, so I'll assume you will keep yours there as well. Fire up your favorite editor and edit the file to look like: