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From: Coert <lgroups@vlymskerp.net>
To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org,
 Karl-Philipp Richter <richter@richtercloud.de>
Subject: Re: How to fix error `cached package a-x.y.z: size mismatch,
 cannot continue` during `pkg upgrade`?
Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2015 11:42:01 +0200
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On Wednesday 25 February 2015 05:06:32 Karl-Philipp Richter wrote:
> Hi,
> According to `man pkg` `pkg clean` should fix the issue, but doesn't. Is
> that a bug? Experienced with `pkg` 1.4.12 on FreeBSD 10.1.
> 
> -Kalle

Try deleting either everything or just the offending package from 
/var/cache/pkg/

-Coert