Hi. I run 9.1-RELEASE on two boxes: one i386 and the other amd64. I've run
the latter for a bit over a week. When I portsnap update, the 32-bit
machine typically gets several to dozens or hundreds of updates, while the
64-bit machine typically gets none, or maybe a couple. What might be the
The update is a delta from what is already on your system. When you
updated the older box, you pulled in lots of changes to get it
current. The newer box needed fewer updates to get current.
Or something is wrong. You can always delete the contents of /ports
and the database in /var/db/portsnap.