Several FreeBSD machines have a /usr/ports ZFS volumes provisioned through installation.

On those, this procedure is needed:

• Clear current content
  • Destroy ZFS volume arcology/usr/ports
  • Create it again (it will keep options like mount points and will be automatically mounted again)
• Allow portsnap to maintain ports tree
  • Install portsnap
  • Run portsnap fetch extract
  • Enable in periodic some portsnap cron update

This is at least needed for the following roles:

• devserver
• dbserver-pgsql

Perhaps actually we should to that everywhere so we can always install using a port if some software fix is needed.