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Subject: Re: Chicken/egg problem with pkg
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On 10/03/2017 17:04, Kurt Jaeger wrote:
> Hi!
>
>> I have an old web server (10.1-RELEASE-p9) which is running for years
>
> I had one with 9.3 something, and upgrading it from the pkg repo
> took not a huge amount of time, yesterday evening...
>
> So maybe upgrading is a good thing, if not too many fancy things
> are active.

You can use pkg upgrade -F to prefetch the packages if you connection 
and/or mirror is slow.