On Wed, Jan 17, 2024 at 10:24:23AM +0000, Stuart Henderson wrote:

>Try downloading the file first and pkg_add from local disk in case
>there's some network issue preventing it from being fetched properly
>(where "network issue" can include some OS problem with the nic, or
>an issue on the network path, I have no idea how stable mips64 is
>at the moment..)

Downloading the file first to /tmp then installing it worked.
I'll bear this in mind for future reference, many thanks.

I think the issue is perhaps that 'go' is maybe a bit 
more complex to install than other similar packages,
and this hardware is really just a glorified switch.
The 'disk' is a usb2 key. The hw is an edgerouter-lite-3.

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Thu Jan 18 11:10:22
root@erl3 /tmp  # pkg_add go-1.20.1.tgz     
quirks-6.121 signed on 2023-04-02T15:19:31Z
File /usr/local/go/pkg.KwVuneEd2x does not exist
File /usr/local/go/pkg.b9yrLeAecL does not exist
File /usr/local/go/api/pkg.JNGf8TwYPT does not exist
File /usr/local/go/api/pkg.9SexezSuMX does not exist
File /usr/local/go/api/pkg.P2jjkSDYgz does not exist
File /usr/local/go/api/pkg.mmdIP9JCp1 does not exist
File /usr/local/go/api/pkg.txSYixf8PV does not exist
File /usr/local/go/bin/pkg.T78eaIQSsG does not exist
partial-go-1.20.1->go-1.20.1: ok

Thu Jan 18 11:23:23
root@erl3 /tmp  # which go
/usr/local/bin/go
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