update from ports

[Alex Zbyslaw]

Pablo Allietti wrote:

>hi i have a simple question.
>
>i was installed spamassasin from /usr/ports how is the procedure to
>upgrade this package? i need to deinstall and install again or have any
>way to only upgrade like yum in fedora?
>  
>
If you are doing installations by hand then, yes, you need to deinstall 
then reinstall.

However, you should look at ports/sysutils/portupgrade or 
ports/sysutils/portmanager.  There are a million and one messages in the 
archives about them, and specific questions about them regularly get 
answered here.

If you are prepared to accept default configuration options and don't 
want to recompile, then check out using packages.  The handbook 
undoubtedly has something to say about them, and you can still use 
portupgrade.

http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ports.html

--Alex