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Ports System upgrades

  All the ports - how to save time if you have the disk space 22 Aug 1998
Building a port - background info on make 4 Oct 1998
fetch - and how to use it behind a firewall 4 Jan 1999
Updating the ports collection 17 Jan 1999
Ports or Packages? 6 Jun 1999
What is installed? 6 Jun 1999
using make to upgrade your ports 19 Nov 1999
Installing a port without installing the ports 14 Jan 2000
When cvsup'ing your ports, remember the base distribution 20 Jan 2000
distfile sharing via anonymous FTP 25 Feb 2000
Have you seen FreshPorts yet? 14 May 2000
Changing the owner of your ports tree 21 Jun 2000
FreshPorts 1.1 30 Jun 2000
FreshPorts goes offline 5 Jul 2000
Keeping up with the ports - pkg_version 5 Aug 2000
Diary update 1 Feb 2001
installing bind8 from ports 28 Mar 2001
Specifying alternative port download sites 5 Jun 2001
Got ports? Here is THE way to upgrade them! 11 Dec 2001
pkgdb - packages database tool 28 Dec 2001
And one port to install them all! 14 Jan 2002
Removing Firefox 2 19 Oct 2009

  upgrading from 2.2.5 to 2.2.7 6 Aug 1998
upgrading to 3.1-Release 21 Feb 1999
mergemaster - a great tool when upgrading 4 Mar 1999
/etc/rc.conf changes for 3.1 6 Mar 1999
Saving and using the kernel change information 20 Mar 1999
Upgrading from 3.1-Release to 3.1-Stable 23 Mar 1999
Starting stuff at boot time 5 May 1999
Kernel Configuration Options 16 May 1999
Adding ipnat to FreeBSD 3.* 16 May 1999
Ports or Packages? 6 Jun 1999
What is installed? 6 Jun 1999
Creating patch files 4 Aug 1999
Swapping boot drives around 13 Aug 1999
Upgrading from 2.2.* to 3.* 13 Aug 1999
how to start things at boot time 5 Dec 1999
Upgrading to 3.3-STABLE 6 Dec 1999
proftpd and FreeBSD 7 Dec 1999
unwanted email from tcpd 26 Dec 1999
Tranferring websites/users from one box to another 21 May 2000
FreeBSD 4.0-stable crypto is fuggered for international users 4 Jul 2000
Crypto problem fixed 11 Jul 2000
Build world on your fast box, install on your slow box 6 Feb 2001
Your Makefile has been rebuilt. 16 Jan 2002
Cross compiling on AMD64 14 Oct 2005
FreeBSD 6.0-RC1 - yes, I know this is late 28 Dec 2005