Handling of ports, and naming convention?

[Matthew Smith]

lasse wrote:

>2. Ports, how do i know i i got the latest set of ports? and if there are new ports out, can i upgrade all ports in one step? (apt-get dist-upgrade) (the debian way)
>

    /usr/ports/sysutils/portupgrade   -- a whole set of tools to do 
exactly what you are looking for

>3. Where can i  find a good howto about recompile the kernel? (step by step, but not for dummies)
>
     Chapter 9 of the FreeBSD handbook
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/kernelconfig.html


I'll leave 1 and 4 up to the more knowledgeable...

-Matt