On Feb 8, 2014, at 4:55 PM, Eric Gallager <egall at gwmail.gwu.edu> wrote: > Really? That sounds dangerous, but if you say it works fine, I guess I can give it a try... That's more or less what selfupdate already does. If you also want to switch to using a checkout of the ports tree, you'll have to edit your sources.conf accordingly. vq