Ports General

Portsnap

Portsnap is used to update the FreeBSD ports tree

portsnap fetch

This will fetch a new copy of the ports tree

portsnap extract

This will extract the new tree to /usr/ports

Finding Ports

find /usr/ports/ -name <NAME OF PORT>*

or

locate <NAME OF PORT>

Installing Ports

cd /usr/ports/<CATEGORY>/<PORT>
make install

If make config hasn't been run previously, then make config will also pop up.

Removing Ports

cd /usr/ports/<CATEGORY>/<PORT>
make deinstall

Making Changes / Reinstalling Ports

cd /usr/ports/<CATEGORY>/<PORT>
make config
make deinstall ;; make reinstall

make reinstall won't overwrite existing configs.

Clean Up

make clean

clears out the working directory

Resetting Configs

make rmconfig

resets the make config back to default

Portsnap and Proxy Servers

If your FreeBSD server sits behind a proxy server then you will have trouble performing a portsnap fetch. To get around this set the following environment variables.
Note: I find it easier to export env vars with the 'sh' shell as opposed to the 'csh' shell.

sh
export HTTP_PROXY=http://proxyip:proxyport/
export HTTP_PROXY_AUTH=basic:*:username:password

This should allow you to authenticate and perform updates through the proxy.