ports tree update on offline machine

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beginner

Hi,

I think portsnap downloaded files are under /var/db/portsnap/files after running [CMD=]# portsnap fetch[/CMD] . Is that true?
Can I use those downloaded files on another offline machine which has the same FreeBSD 8 running in order to update ports tree in offline?
Please advise me how to update ports tree on offline FreeBSD machine.

Thank you.
regards
 
What is the point of updating ports tree on offline machine?

Code: 
# portsnap fetch
# tar -czf portsnap.tar.gz /var/db/portsnap

on offline machine
Code: 
# tar -xf portsnap.tar.gz -C /var/db
# portsnap extract

but you know, that in order to update ports you need to fetch distfiles [search forum for similar threads]
 
In case, I have very slow Internet connection or without Internet, I would like to use FreeBSD instead.
Yeah, I'd already have some answer to fetch ports to distflies in the forum.
Thank you very much.
 
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