freebsd-update metadata error / 12.0-RELEASE-p7

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On Wed, Jul 17, 2019 at 08:11:36PM +0100, tech-lists wrote:
>Hi,
>
>context:
># freebsd-version -ku
>12.0-RELEASE-p7
>12.0-RELEASE-p7
>
>freebsd-update fetch gives the following error:
>
># freebsd-update fetch
>Looking up update.FreeBSD.org mirrors... 2 mirrors found.
>Fetching metadata signature for 12.0-RELEASE from update1.freebsd.org...
>done.
>Fetching metadata index... done.
>Fetching 2 metadata files... failed.
>
>How to fix?

Turned on debugging and it seems the affected system is looking for
phttpget

root at redacted:/var/db # freebsd-update -v debug fetch
src component not installed, skipped
Looking up update.FreeBSD.org mirrors... 2 mirrors found.
Fetching metadata signature for 12.0-RELEASE from update1.freebsd.org... 
latest.ssl                                             512  B 2109 kBps
00s
done.
Fetching metadata index... 
dda4201ec2d4d713950e80e03c1430475b47087bf9ad13         225  B  964 kBps
00s
done.
Fetching 2 metadata files... 
/usr/libexec/phttpget update1.freebsd.org
12.0-RELEASE/amd64/m/08f94cc15d9fc9737da1f0866ccc826be7a4f5945718273a582f39a3cbf85184.gz
12.0-RELEASE/amd64/m/be338bb3947d92022912ad0e741ffa936ffc7008dd233ec81040cfbba11a66c9.gz
xargs: /usr/libexec/phttpget: No such file or directory
failed.

somehow it was missing, so got 12.0 sources, cd to
/usr/src/usr.sbin/portsnap/phttpget then make && make install and now
freebsd-update works as expected.

hopefully this will be of use to others

-- 
J.
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