Difficulty with the FreeBSD-ports repo whilst booted from a FreeBSD Installer on a memory stick

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From: Graham Perrin <grahamperrin_at_gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2025 03:46:00 UTC
Booted from 
|FreeBSD-14.3-STABLE-amd64-20250814-7b9f6ebb9268-272178-mini-memstick.img| 
on a memory stick.

Two repositories enabled, *minimally configured* – in particular, no 
|signature_type|:

 1. FreeBSD-base
 2. FreeBSD-ports

The *FreeBSD-ports* repo can not be updated.

Debug level 1 output below.


|Script started on Sat Aug 16 10:11:30 2025 # uname -mvKU FreeBSD 
14.3-STABLE stable/14-n272178-7b9f6ebb9268 GENERIC amd64 1403504 1403504 
# pkg -v 2.2.2 # zpool list -v NAME SIZE ALLOC FREE CKPOINT EXPANDSZ 
FRAG CAP DEDUP HEALTH ALTROOT damp 111G 3.23G 108G - - 10% 2% 1.00x 
ONLINE /tmp/altroot ada0p3 112G 3.23G 108G - - 10% 2.90% - ONLINE # pkg 
repos -e FreeBSD-ports: { url : 
"https://pkg.freebsd.org/FreeBSD:14:amd64/quarterly", enabled : yes, 
priority : 0 } FreeBSD-base: { url : 
"https://pkg.freebsd.org/FreeBSD:14:amd64/base_weekly", enabled : yes, 
priority : 0 } # pkg update Updating FreeBSD-ports repository 
catalogue... Fetching meta.conf: 0% Fetching meta.conf: 100% 179 B 
0.2kB/s 00:01 Fetching data.pkg: 0% Fetching data.pkg: 0% 32 KiB 
32.4kB/s 05:19 ETA Fetching data.pkg: 69% 7 MiB 7.2MB/s 00:00 ETA 
Fetching data.pkg: 100% 10 MiB 5.2MB/s 00:02 pkg: Error extracting the 
archive: 'Write error' pkg: Repo extraction failed FreeBSD-ports 
repository is up to date. Updating FreeBSD-base repository catalogue... 
FreeBSD-base repository is up to date. All repositories are up to date. 
# pkg -d update Updating FreeBSD-ports repository catalogue... 
DBG(1)[1321]> PkgRepo: verifying update for FreeBSD-ports DBG(1)[1321]> 
PkgRepo: need forced update of FreeBSD-ports DBG(1)[1321]> Pkgrepo, 
begin update of '/var/db/pkg/repos/FreeBSD-ports/db' DBG(1)[1321]> 
(fetch) Request to fetch 
https://pkg.freebsd.org/FreeBSD:14:amd64/quarterly/meta.conf 
DBG(1)[1321]> (fetch) Fetch: fetcher used: https Fetching meta.conf: 0% 
Fetching meta.conf: 100% 179 B 0.2kB/s 00:01 DBG(1)[1321]> (fetch) 
Request to fetch 
https://pkg.freebsd.org/FreeBSD:14:amd64/quarterly/data.pkg 
DBG(1)[1321]> (fetch) Fetch: fetcher used: https Fetching data.pkg: 0% 
Fetching data.pkg: 0% 32 KiB 32.4kB/s 05:19 ETA Fetching data.pkg: 55% 5 
MiB 5.7MB/s 00:01 ETA Fetching data.pkg: 100% 10 MiB 5.2MB/s 00:02 
DBG(1)[1321]> PkgRepo: extracting data of repo FreeBSD-ports 
DBG(1)[1322]> PkgRepo: extracting signature of repo in a sandbox pkg: 
Error extracting the archive: 'Write error' pkg: Repo extraction failed 
DBG(1)[1321]> (fetch) Request to fetch 
https://pkg.freebsd.org/FreeBSD:14:amd64/quarterly/packagesite.pkg 
DBG(1)[1321]> (fetch) Fetch: fetcher used: https FreeBSD-ports 
repository is up to date. Updating FreeBSD-base repository catalogue... 
DBG(1)[1321]> PkgRepo: verifying update for FreeBSD-base DBG(1)[1321]> 
Pkgrepo, begin update of '/var/db/pkg/repos/FreeBSD-base/db' 
DBG(1)[1321]> (fetch) Request to fetch 
https://pkg.freebsd.org/FreeBSD:14:amd64/base_weekly/meta.conf 
DBG(1)[1321]> (fetch) Fetch: fetcher used: https DBG(1)[1321]> (fetch) 
Request to fetch 
https://pkg.freebsd.org/FreeBSD:14:amd64/base_weekly/data.pkg 
DBG(1)[1321]> (fetch) Fetch: fetcher used: https FreeBSD-base repository 
is up to date. All repositories are up to date. # exit Script done on 
Sat Aug 16 10:13:37 2025|