This an How-to upgrade your FreeBSD ports (This tutorial tested over FreeBSD 6.2)
Usage:-
1. Install sysutils/portsnap from the FreeBSD ports tree. (Already included with FreeBSD 6.0 and later)
2. Create the directory /usr/ports if it does not already exist
2. portsnap fetch Fetch a compressed snapshot, or update the existing snapshot.
3. portsnap extract Extract a ports tree, replacing existing files and directories.
4. portsnap update Update a ports tree extracted using the extract command.
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