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FreeBSD 4.0 HOWTO for help upgrading your version

Sometime after you install FreeBSD you will attempt to compile a port and have it fail due to a MD5 error or the file being unavilable. This is inevitable as new software versions come out. The way FreeBSD keeps up-to-date ( up-to-date being the CURRENT or STABLE branches...STABLE being the one for non-FreeBSD guru's ) is through CVSUP.

cd /usr/ports/net/cvsup-bin; make install clean
This will install the cvsup binary which will do our work as far as retreving the files and updating our sources. It will need a supfile which tells cvsup how to upgrade itself. Put it in /usr/local/etc. This supfile is intended for people who wish to update all thier ports and get the latest 4.0-STABLE source files.

/usr/local/bin/cvsup -g -l2 /usr/local/etc/4.0_supfile This process will take several minutes to several hours. The more frequent you do it the less likely it will take hours as it will only update changes since the last cvsup you did. For that reason, I highly recommend that you crontab this to run late at night.