Upgrade FreeBSD ports collection
Run portsnap as follows:
portsnap fetch update
OR
portsnap fetch
portsnap update
Display outdated ports list
You can list outdated ports list with pkg_version command:
pkg_version -vIL=
Update FreeBSD packages / software
Now run portmanager to upgrade installed ports:
portmanager -u -l
How do I upgrade a single software only?
portmanager allows you to update a single port and all of its dependencies. For example update port called bash i.e. bash shell (shells/bash), enter:
portmanager shells/bash -l -u
How do I apply binary security updates for FreeBSD?
Latest version includes a tool called freebsd-update (thanks to Bok for pointing out this tool). The freebsd-update tool is used to fetch, install, and rollback binary updates to the FreeBSD base system.
Fetch updates
Use fetch option to get all available binary updates:
freebsd-update fetch
Install updates
Install the most recently fetched updates:
freebsd-update install
Install a tool that with a little script of my own will help make choosing the fastest cvs server on the Internet for us so that downloading the sources take as little time as possible:
cd /usr/ports/sysutils/fastest_cvsupmake install clean
SERVER=`fastest_cvsup -q -c ua`
cvsup -h $SERVER supfile
# Now let’s update the ports database…
/usr/local/sbin/portsdb -Uu# Now let’s see how badly we’re out of date…
/usr/local/sbin/portversion -vl "<"