'pkg install' fails on all packages: size mismatch, fetching from remote

[yurivict]

This happens on some machines. Rerunning produces the same result.

#  pkg install zh-ibus-pinyin
Updating FreeBSD repository catalogue...
FreeBSD repository is up to date.
All repositories are up to date.
The following 2 package(s) will be affected (of 0 checked):

New packages to be INSTALLED:
	zh-ibus-pinyin: 1.5.0_4
	py27-xdg: 0.25_1

Number of packages to be installed: 2

The process will require 2 MiB more space.
470 KiB to be downloaded.

Proceed with this action? [y/N]: y
[1/2] Fetching zh-ibus-pinyin-1.5.0_4.txz: 100%  400 KiB 409.3kB/s    00:01    
pkg: cached package zh-ibus-pinyin-1.5.0_4: size mismatch, fetching from remote
[2/2] Fetching zh-ibus-pinyin-1.5.0_4.txz: 100%  400 KiB 409.3kB/s    00:01    
pkg: cached package zh-ibus-pinyin-1.5.0_4: size mismatch, cannot continue

[yurivict]

Now this problem is gone. Very strange ...

[bdrewery]

I'm running into this consistently with 1.10.4 and I don't think it's related to #988

[bdrewery]

pkg -o OSVERSION=1200056 update -f fixes it... The OSVERSION check causes a ton of confusion for upgrade/install/fetch.

[jeffsf]

Hitting this on a very fresh install on a PCEngines APU2C4, updated with freebsd-update and not much else installed

$ uname -a
FreeBSD <redacted> 11.1-RELEASE-p10 FreeBSD 11.1-RELEASE-p10 #0: Tue May  8 05:21:56 UTC 2018     root@amd64-builder.daemonology.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  amd64
$ uname -U
1101001
$ freebsd-version
11.1-RELEASE-p10
$ pkg version
gettext-runtime-0.19.8.1_1         =
indexinfo-0.3.1                    =
pkg-1.10.5                         =
sudo-1.8.22                        =

Repeated failures, re-running pkg update does not resolve

$ sudo pkg -d install emacs-nox
DBG(1)[5659]> pkg initialized
Updating FreeBSD repository catalogue...
DBG(1)[5659]> PkgRepo: verifying update for FreeBSD
DBG(1)[5659]> Pkgrepo, begin update of '/var/db/pkg/repo-FreeBSD.sqlite'
DBG(1)[5659]> Fetch: fetching from: http://pkgmir.geo.freebsd.org/FreeBSD:11:amd64/quarterly/meta.txz with opts "i"
DBG(1)[5659]> Fetch: fetching from: http://pkgmir.geo.freebsd.org/FreeBSD:11:amd64/quarterly/packagesite.txz with opts "i"
FreeBSD repository is up to date.
All repositories are up to date.
DBG(1)[5659]> want to get an advisory lock on a database
The following 13 package(s) will be affected (of 0 checked):

New packages to be INSTALLED:
	emacs-nox: 25.3_3,3
	libxml2: 2.9.7
	gnutls: 3.5.18
	trousers: 0.3.14_2
	tpm-emulator: 0.7.4_2
	gmp: 6.1.2
	p11-kit: 0.23.10
	libtasn1: 4.13
	ca_root_nss: 3.37
	libffi: 3.2.1_2
	nettle: 3.4
	libidn2: 2.0.4
	libunistring: 0.9.9

Number of packages to be installed: 13

The process will require 142 MiB more space.
46 MiB to be downloaded.

Proceed with this action? [y/N]: y
DBG(1)[5659]> Fetch: fetching from: http://pkgmir.geo.freebsd.org/FreeBSD:11:amd64/quarterly/All/emacs-nox-25.3_3,3.txz with opts "i"
[1/13] Fetching emacs-nox-25.3_3,3.txz: 100%   39 MiB  13.6MB/s    00:03    
pkg: cached package emacs-nox-25.3_3,3: size mismatch, fetching from remote
DBG(1)[5659]> Fetch: fetching from: http://pkgmir.geo.freebsd.org/FreeBSD:11:amd64/quarterly/All/emacs-nox-25.3_3,3.txz with opts "i"
[2/13] Fetching emacs-nox-25.3_3,3.txz: 100%   39 MiB  20.5MB/s    00:02    
pkg: cached package emacs-nox-25.3_3,3: size mismatch, cannot continue
DBG(1)[5659]> release an advisory lock on a database

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Not knowing if @bdrewery resolution was due to his working on 12.0, or a fix in general, tried

$ sudo pkg -o OSVERSION=1101001 update -f

consistent with 11.1-RELEASE.
Installed properly thereafter.

[brd]

Duplicate of #988