pkg install no longer works on my newly installed system

[Gleb Popov]

On Wed, Feb 5, 2020 at 12:48 AM Bob Willcox <bob at immure.com> wrote:

> On a newly installed 12.1 stable system for some reason I am now getting
> this error
> whenever I attempt to install any package via 'pkg install':
>
> root at jar-jar:1 /.amd_mnt/vader/host/stor/home/bob> pkg install ctags
> Updating FreeBSD repository catalogue...
> FreeBSD repository is up to date.
> All repositories are up to date.
> The following 1 package(s) will be affected (of 0 checked):
>
> New packages to be INSTALLED:
>         ctags: 5.8
>
> Number of packages to be installed: 1
>
> 125 KiB to be downloaded.
>
> Proceed with this action? [y/N]: y
> [1/1] Fetching ctags-5.8.txz: 100%  125 KiB 128.3kB/s    00:01
> pkg: cached package ctags-5.8: size mismatch, fetching from remote
> Fetching ctags-5.8.txz: 100%  125 KiB 128.3kB/s    00:01
> pkg: cached package ctags-5.8: size mismatch, cannot continue
>
> Previously I was able to install some packages on this system. I did
> update the
> system via downloading the src and building/installing world and a new
> kernel.
>
> Anyone have any idea what is wrong with my system now and how to fix it?
>
> Thanks,
> Bob
>

I wonder if https://github.com/freebsd/pkg/issues/1807 is related.


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