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
all the way to diffing yorick/pkg/PLIST and then died with a
"bad hostname freefall.freebsd.org" .... Hopefully that's not bad... ;-)
Hmm.. Maybe I'll try doing this from beast, next! kickme's a boring
machine, and bento is busy.