Solved 'missing or size mismatch' when pkg tracking latest

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nphuracm

Version and Architecture: 14.1-RELEASE amd64

Note: For both pkg and ports, I am currently using a third-party mirror - one that's neither listed in the FreeBSD handbook, nor hosted under any FreeBSD domain. The specific mirror I am on is located at https://mirrors.ustc.edu.cn. This choice is made for sake of better and more stable access to the repos from my region.

Situation: In order to make life with both pkg and ports easier and 'stay on the cutting edge' to an extent, I chose to make pkg track the latest branch of the pkg repository. However, in subsequent use, I have more than once encountered missing or size mismatch errors. pkg would retry to download the same 'bad' file over and over again before eventually failing entirely. pkg update -f does not fix this.
Not ALL packages are made subject to this situation — mostly, I notice this phenomenon to be more common among packages that 'are most likely to be installed explicitly by users', such as libreoffice.

I looked up on the net and was able to work around the issue by having pkg track quarterly instead, but I do not like this workaround.
What else can I do to resolve this issue, or is it generally expected when your pkg tracks latest?
 
nphuracm said:
For both pkg and ports, I am currently using a third-party mirror - one that's neither listed in the FreeBSD handbook, nor hosted under any FreeBSD domain.
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Then it's not supported. Any issues with those packages are beyond our scope.
 
Verified that this no longer reproduces when tracking the latest branch on https://pkg.FreeBSD.org. Marking as Solved.

Though I am personally curious as to what could have caused this to happen; after all, mirrors are supposed to be exact copies of the origin repos.
 
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