Hi, On Feb 10, 2016 6:35 PM, "Ingo Schwarze" <schwa...@usta.de> wrote: > > Hi, > > Paco Esteban wrote on Wed, Feb 10, 2016 at 05:14:09PM +0100: > > On Wed, 10 Feb 2016, Ville Valkonen wrote: > >> On Feb 10, 2016 5:16 PM, "Paco Esteban" <p...@onna.be> wrote: > > >>> I've one machine that has 5.8-current (20th of October snapshot). > >>> This is a "hardly-ever-touched" machine and I would prefer to have it > >>> following -stable. > >>> Is it possible to go from 5.8-current to 5.9 (when it's available) using > >>> the installer ? > > Yes. There is no problem with that whatsoever. Going from X-current > to (X+1)-stable is supported in exactly the same way as going from > X-stable to (X+1)-stable. Equivalently, you can consider (X+1)-release > as the latest version of X-current that will be made available. > > >> downgrading is not supported. > > Ville, please refrain from spreading wrong information. > > The meaning of "downgrading" is going from X-current to X-stable > or from X-anything to Y-anything with X > Y. That's not what Paco > was talking about.
I stand corrected, tanks Ingo. And pardon for spreading the wrong information. > >> Anyway, if it's barely touched, why not to just spin a fresh install? > > A fresh install is always an option, but there is no need for it > in this case. > > Yours, > Ingo -- Ville
