install or download port collection?

[Andrew Stevenson]

> On 03.05.2014, at 06:59, Paul Darius <paul at ranahminang.net> wrote:
> 
> I just download the ports.tar.gz from
> ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/ports/ports.tar.gz
> can it be used ? no arch dependency on the source ?

That should be ok. There are not architecture specific versions of the ports tree. 

Andrew