To continue the installation of sysutils/newportsversioncheck... $ mkdir /usr/local/newportsversioncheck/html $ mkdir /usr/local/newportsversioncheck/db $ cd /usr/local/newportsversioncheck $ bin/init_db.sh db/newports.db And then edit bin/mail_maintainers.pl and set the variable $ME to your name and email address. Don't forget the \ in front of the @. Then read the file bin/README with regarding to the "Running" section. Note: for this tool to work you need to have the first patch in ports/86776 (http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=ports/86776) applied to bsd.port.mk.