"Updating FreeBSD repository catalogue" is slow and frequent

[Brad Davis]

On Sun, May 13, 2018, at 10:37 AM, Alan Somers wrote:
> On some systems, every time I try to install a package pkg(8) spends five
> minutes at "Updating FreeBSD repository catalogue...".  This sounds like
> the kind of thing that ought to happen infrequently, say once per week.
> But instead it happens on every single invocation.  I've seen it on TrueOS
> Edge, 11.0-RELEASE, and 11.1-RELEASE, but not every system.  Does anybody
> know what's going on?

Broken IPv6 config?  That would be my first guess..


Regards,
Brad Davis