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On Saturday 10 March 2007 14:40, Kevin Oberman wrote:
> I simply install without ports and, as soon as I have the system up and
> on the net, run csup to pull in the entire ports tree in clean form.

You can also download /pub/FreeBSD/ports/ports/ports.tar.gz from a FreeBSD ftp 
site, and expand that. It's the ports tree, updated every day. Then you can 
update with c[v]sup later. I don't know if this is faster for a user, but I'd 
assume it's less load for the cvsup servers.

-David

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