freebsd-update keeps failing

[SirDice]

Wouldn't that mean that you gotta have a ton of storage space for the proxy cache?

Not that bad, as far as I can tell.

Using Apache as a caching proxy, for the sole purpose of caching freebsd-update(8):

# du -sh /var/cache/freebsd-update/
1.3G    /var/cache/freebsd-update/

It's been a while since I did a major version upgrade using this cache. I did do a round of patch updates recently. This cache was set up several major and minor version upgrades ago and I never bothered to check how much it actually uses. Things may have timed out eventually, I do have htcacheclean(8) running.

htcacheclean_cache="/var/cache/freebsd-update/"
htcacheclean_enable="YES"