FWIW, checkout of these things took 5+hrs, staying on the local
.freebsd.org net w/o hitting the 'net at all.
As promised,
$ time cvs ci
real 67m51.701s
user 0m1.250s
sys 0m5.345s
Creating gzip'd tar ball in '/usr/ports/packages/All/acroread-3.02.tgz'
tar: can't add file Acrobat3/Reader/intellinux/lib/libagm.so.2 : No such file or directory
tar: can't add file Acrobat3/Reader/intellinux/lib/libpfs.so.2 : No such file or directory
tar: can't add file Acrobat3/Reader/intellinux/lib/libreadcore.so.3 : No such file or directory
/usr/sbin/pkg_create: tar command failed with code 256
*** Error code 1