portupgrade problems

[ghast at dieflux.afraid.org (Jarrod Wageman)]

I have recently decided to move over to freeBSD. I have cvsup'ed, portsdb -Uu, portupgrade -a 

I might have forgotten a step, I also tried sysinstall for updating my packages, I was wondering what the

heck I am doing wrong? Nothing happens when I try to portupgrade -a this is an older 5.1 release disc also

so I assume that there are quite a few updates I need. Please help. Oh also, I have been reading man ports

man portupgrade, man cvsup, man cvs, and the freebsd porters handbook, as well as the regular handbook

all to no avail, please help.
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