portsnap says no updates needed

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ossnet

Hello all

I'm not sure why my port tree is not updating

I ran

portsnap fetch extract
portsnap fetch update

and it says Ports tree is already up to date

when I go to /usr/ports/www/firefox

and look at the Makefile it still shows the version 2.0
 
ossnet said:
portsnap fetch extract
portsnap fetch update
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Those two commands are redundant. extract downloads the latest ports tree, and extracts it over top of /usr/ports. There are no updates required after that. However, you should only need to do this once.

After you're done an extract, you should only ever need to do update to download/extract *only* the updates needed.

Doing both, one after the other, is pointless and wasteful.

when I go to /usr/ports/www/firefox

and look at the Makefile it still shows the version 2.0
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Install ports-mgmt/psearch and use it to search for ports, and you won't run into this 'issue' ever again.

Code: 
[user@host ~]$ psearch firefox
german/bsdforen-firefox-searchplugin Firefox searchplugins for the www.bsdforen.de board and wiki
german/bsdgroup-firefox-searchplugin Firefox searchplugins for the www.BSDGroup.de board
www/bugmenot-firefox      Firefox extension to bypass compulsory web registration
www/conkeror              A completely keyboard driven browser based on firefox
www/firefox               Web browser based on the browser portion of Mozilla
www/firefox-devel         Web browser based on the browser portion of Mozilla
www/firefox-i18n          Localized interface for Firefox
www/firefox-remote        Wrapper scripts for firefox web browser
www/firefox3              Web browser based on the browser portion of Mozilla
www/firefox3-i18n         Localized interface for Firefox3
www/linux-firefox         Web browser based on the browser portion of Mozilla
www/linux-firefox-devel   Web browser based on the browser portion of Mozilla
www/xpi-fasterfox         Performance and network tweaks for Firefox
www/xpi-firefox-showcase  Easily locate and select any open browser window
www/xpi-firefoxonwooztalk Meet your World Wide Web neighbors with Firefox
www/xpi-httpfox           HTTP analyzer addon for Firefox
www/xpi-imglikeopera      Load only the images that you want in Firefox
www/xpi-live_http_headers A firefox extension to view HTTP headers
www/xpi-modify_headers    A firefox extension to manipulate HTTP headers
www/xpi-pencil            Firefox addon to do GUI prototyping and simple sketching
www/xpi-twitterfox        twitterFox firefox plugin.
www/xpi-vimperator        Vim look and feel for Firefox
 
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