Clone ports from bsd installation to another

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I have a production FreeBSD webserver which I would like to "clone" to create a development/preproduction server.

I've installed a clean FreeBSD server and now I would like to know if there's an easy way to list all the ports installed on the production server, get that list out and input that to the new server, so I can easily install all the same apps and same versions than in the production machine.

We are using:
FreeBSD 7.1
portmaster as a port manager

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