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
Note that this duplicates the functionality of window(1). However I didn't
know this existed when I made the port. Also, it may be useful for those
in a hetrogenious environment, if they want the same programs on all OS's.