pkg install no longer works on my newly installed system

[Bob Willcox]

On Tue, Feb 04, 2020 at 02:48:50PM -0600, Bob Willcox 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 removed the repo-FreeBSD.sqlite in /var/db/pkg and tried doing a pkg install again and
it downloaded/updated all the files in /var/db/pkg and then successfully downloaded and
installed the ctags package.

So it seems that something was not right with the files in there before (even though
previously it worked).

Bob

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