trouble getting git cvsimport working

not sure what I'm doing wrong.

actual cvs command

cvs -d :pserver:anonymous@anoncvs.gentoo.org:/var/cvsroot co gentoo-x86

what I'm trying

git cvsimport -a -v -d :pserver:anonymous@anoncvs.gentoo.org/var/cvsroot/ gentoo-x86 -C portage

Initialized empty Git repository in /home/portdev/cvs/portage/.git/
Running cvsps...
parse error on third token
WARNING: malformed CVS version: no data
WARNING: malformed CVS version str: (UNKNOWN CLIENT)
WARNING: Your CVS client version:
[(UNKNOWN CLIENT)]
and/or server version:
[(UNKNOWN SERVER)]
are too old to properly support the rlog command.
This command was introduced in 1.11.1.  Cvsps
will use log instead, but PatchSet numbering
may become unstable due to pruned empty
directories.

sh: cvs: command not found DONE; creating master branch fatal: refs/heads/origin: not a valid SHA1 fatal: master: not a valid SHA1 fatal: You are on a branch yet to be born checkout failed: 32768

help would be appreciated.