I spent a while trying to work out why I was getting CVS errors from the script for GNU a2ps, and I realised that the problem was that a2ps's manual wasn't online yet. This causes confusing error messages when the "manual" subdirectory isn't online, and cvs can't find a CVS directory and hence CVSROOT.
I think it would be sufficient to "cvs add" the manual subdirectory before trying to "cvs add" its contents, adding
( cd pkg && $CVS add manual )
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