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When 5.3 RELEASE first came out, I used the miniinst.iso CD 
to install 5.3 on a spare computer for tests. It installed ok 
and based on how it worked, I updated my primary computer. 

Now I have an application for the spare computer, and I thought 
I would use it to verify my understanding of how CVSup works.

I installed cvsup-without-gui. 

pkg_info shows cvsup installed.

pkg_version, however, failed. "Unable to open INDEX in pkg_do"
I found that pkg_version http://www.FreeBSD.org/ports/INDEX-5 
ran ok, so the problem was the missing /usr/ports/INDEX-5. In
fact there was no /usr/ports directory.

I built src-all and ports-all. Now, there is a /usr/ports 
directory and and lots of directories and files therein. In 
/usr/ports, I did make fetchindex. It failed. The 
/usr/ports/Makeindex file was really Makeindex,v. I copied it 
as Makeindex, and tried make fetchindex again. It showed many 
errors, finally "fatal errors encountered -- cannot continue". 

Obviously I need to start over, this time using the CD with 
the full iso image. I'll do that, but....

What did I do wrong?  And,

What is the significance of the ",v" (comma, v) tacked on to 
several of the files in /usr/ports when the files were placed 
there by CVSup?

Jay O'Brien
Rio Linda, California, USA