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
In-Conjunction-With: Satoshi's patch to bsd.port.mk
(note: unlike the last change in perl5 versions, I have only upgraded p5-* ports, not other ports that rely upon perl5.)