pkg will not upgrade

[Martin Paredes]

El Mon, 29 Oct 2018 15:15:59 -0400
"James B. Byrne via freebsd-questions" <freebsd-questions at freebsd.org>
escribió:
> In a Freebsd-11.1p15 jail I am trying to upgrade the packages.
> However
> 
> pkg upgrade
> . . .
> Installed packages to be REINSTALLED:
> 	tree-1.7.0 (option added: DOCS)
> 	lzop-1.04 (option added: DOCS)
> 
> Number of packages to be upgraded: 27
> Number of packages to be reinstalled: 2
> 
> The process will require 2 MiB more space.
> 2 MiB to be downloaded.
> 
> Proceed with this action? [y/N]: y
> [mx31.harte-lyne.ca] [1/3] Fetching clamav-0.100.2.txz: 100%    1 MiB 
>  1.2MB/s    00:01
> pkg: cached package clamav-0.100.2: size mismatch, fetching from
> remote [mx31.harte-lyne.ca] [2/3] Fetching clamav-0.100.2.txz:   3%
> 48 KiB 49.2kB/s    00:[mx31.harte-lyne.ca] [2/3] Fetching
> clamav-0.100.2.txz: 100%    1 MiB   1.2MB/s    00:01
> pkg: cached package clamav-0.100.2: size mismatch, cannot continue
> 
> I have already cleared the cache.  What is going on?  If I try to
> update pkg itself then I get a warning that the kernel required for
> the update is higher than the one running the jail; so don't do that.
> 

Your problem is "size mismatch", I resolved running as root the
following

pkg clean
rm -rf /var/cache/pkg/*
pkg update -f
pkg upgrade

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Martin Paredes
Hermosillo, Son. Mexico