cvs, cvsup, portsnap and csup

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:anonymous@cvs.freesbie.org:/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