Updating Ports on 15.0-RELEASE-p5

From: Washington Odhiambo <odhiambo_at_gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 04 Apr 2026 11:50:48 UTC
This is a pkgbasified system.

What's going on here?

root@gw:/home/wash # pkg repos
FreeBSD-ports: {
    url             : "pkg+https://pkg.FreeBSD.org/FreeBSD:15:amd64/latest",
    enabled         : yes,
    priority        : 0,
    mirror_type     : "SRV",
    signature_type  : "FINGERPRINTS",
    fingerprints    : "/usr/share/keys/pkg"
  }
FreeBSD-ports-kmods: {
    url             : "pkg+
https://pkg.FreeBSD.org/FreeBSD:15:amd64/kmods_latest_0",
    enabled         : yes,
    priority        : 0,
    mirror_type     : "SRV",
    signature_type  : "FINGERPRINTS",
    fingerprints    : "/usr/share/keys/pkg"
  }
FreeBSD-base: {
    url             : "pkg+
https://pkg.FreeBSD.org/FreeBSD:15:amd64/base_release_0",
    enabled         : yes,
    priority        : 0,
    mirror_type     : "SRV",
    signature_type  : "FINGERPRINTS",
    fingerprints    : "/usr/share/keys/pkgbase-15"
  }
root@gw:/home/wash # pkg update
Updating FreeBSD-ports repository catalogue...
pkg: Failed to fetch
https://pkg.FreeBSD.org/FreeBSD:15:amd64/latest/meta.conf: Timeout was
reached
pkg: Failed to fetch
https://pkg.FreeBSD.org/FreeBSD:15:amd64/latest/meta.txz: Timeout was
reached
repository FreeBSD-ports has no meta file, using default settings
pkg: Failed to fetch
https://pkg.FreeBSD.org/FreeBSD:15:amd64/latest/data.pkg: Timeout was
reached
pkg: Failed to fetch
https://pkg.FreeBSD.org/FreeBSD:15:amd64/latest/data.tzst: Timeout was
reached
pkg: Failed to fetch
https://pkg.FreeBSD.org/FreeBSD:15:amd64/latest/packagesite.pkg: Timeout
was reached
pkg: Failed to fetch
https://pkg.FreeBSD.org/FreeBSD:15:amd64/latest/packagesite.tzst: Timeout
was reached
Unable to update repository FreeBSD-ports
Updating FreeBSD-ports-kmods repository catalogue...
pkg: Failed to fetch
https://pkg.FreeBSD.org/FreeBSD:15:amd64/kmods_latest_0/meta.conf: Timeout
was reached
pkg: Failed to fetch
https://pkg.FreeBSD.org/FreeBSD:15:amd64/kmods_latest_0/meta.txz: Timeout
was reached
repository FreeBSD-ports-kmods has no meta file, using default settings
pkg: Failed to fetch
https://pkg.FreeBSD.org/FreeBSD:15:amd64/kmods_latest_0/data.pkg: Timeout
was reached
pkg: Failed to fetch
https://pkg.FreeBSD.org/FreeBSD:15:amd64/kmods_latest_0/data.tzst: Timeout
was reached
pkg: Failed to fetch
https://pkg.FreeBSD.org/FreeBSD:15:amd64/kmods_latest_0/packagesite.pkg:
Timeout was reached
pkg: Failed to fetch
https://pkg.FreeBSD.org/FreeBSD:15:amd64/kmods_latest_0/packagesite.tzst:
Timeout was reached
Unable to update repository FreeBSD-ports-kmods
Updating FreeBSD-base repository catalogue...
pkg: Failed to fetch
https://pkg.FreeBSD.org/FreeBSD:15:amd64/base_release_0/meta.conf: Timeout
was reached
pkg: Failed to fetch
https://pkg.FreeBSD.org/FreeBSD:15:amd64/base_release_0/meta.txz: Timeout
was reached
repository FreeBSD-base has no meta file, using default settings
pkg: Failed to fetch
https://pkg.FreeBSD.org/FreeBSD:15:amd64/base_release_0/data.pkg: Timeout
was reached
pkg: Failed to fetch
https://pkg.FreeBSD.org/FreeBSD:15:amd64/base_release_0/data.tzst: Timeout
was reached
pkg: Failed to fetch
https://pkg.FreeBSD.org/FreeBSD:15:amd64/base_release_0/packagesite.pkg:
Timeout was reached
pkg: Failed to fetch
https://pkg.FreeBSD.org/FreeBSD:15:amd64/base_release_0/packagesite.tzst:
Timeout was reached
Unable to update repository FreeBSD-base
Error updating repositories!
root@gw:/home/wash # ping pkg.FreeBSD.org
PING pkgmir.geo.FreeBSD.org (96.47.72.71): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 96.47.72.71: icmp_seq=0 ttl=52 time=249.443 ms
64 bytes from 96.47.72.71: icmp_seq=1 ttl=52 time=248.192 ms
^C
--- pkgmir.geo.FreeBSD.org ping statistics ---
2 packets transmitted, 2 packets received, 0.0% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 248.192/248.817/249.443/0.625 ms
root@gw:/home/wash # uname -a
FreeBSD gw.wash.lan 15.0-RELEASE-p5 FreeBSD 15.0-RELEASE-p5
releng/15.0-n281018-0730d5233286 GENERIC amd64
root@gw:/home/wash #

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