pkg: cached package size mismatch, again

[Rostislav Krasny]

On Mon, Oct 17, 2016 at 5:55 PM, Rostislav Krasny <rosti.bsd at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've a fresh FreeBSD 11.0 installed. When I try to install x11/kde4 by
> pkg(8) it fails to install the very first dependency package:
>
> Fetching ktux-4.14.3.txz: 100%  117 KiB 119.7kB/s    00:01
> pkg: cached package ktux-4.14.3: size mismatch, fetching from remote
> Fetching ktux-4.14.3.txz: 100%  117 KiB 119.7kB/s    00:01
> pkg: cached package ktux-4.14.3: size mismatch, cannot continue
>
> I found such a problem was already reported in this mailing list and
> even fixed two years ago:
> https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-ports/2014-August/094447.html
>
> Unfortunately It happens again in FreeBSD 11.0.
>
> I didn't try "pkg update -f" yet and I don't have ports installed.
> During the FreeBSD installation I also installed the local copy of the
> Handbook. This procedure lead to the pkg(8) to be installed and also
> installed the handbook package. Don't know if this information could
> help you to understand the issue, though.

The "pkg update -f" helped. But obviously there is some bug in the pkg(8).