On 5/11/2021 1:42 AM, Robert Klein wrote:
On Sun, 9 May 2021 07:47:32 -0700
Scott Vanderbilt <li...@datagenic.com> wrote:
On 5/9/2021 4:04 AM, Stuart Henderson wrote:
On 2021-05-08, Scott Vanderbilt <li...@datagenic.com> wrote:
Apologies if this is a question to which there is an obvious
answer, but I could not find one in the sysupgrade man page, in
the FAQ, or by Googling.
Is it not possible to do a sysupgrade from 6.9-current to latest
using snapshots at the moment? When I try, I get the following
response from sysupgrade:
This can only have happened if you were running a "6.9" kernel and
not "6.9-current". You might still have the boot messages to
confirm; zgrep OpenBSD /var/log/messages*
I can assure you with absolute certainty that this machine in
question was running 6.9-current prior to the attempt to run
sysupgrade.
maybe you had a snapshot claiming to be “release”. This typically
happened in the past a couple of days around the actual release. If
you look at the history of sys/conf/newvers.sh (e.g. at the github
mirror, if CVS is too much effort for one file) you'll see 6.9 went out
of beta on April, 4 and into current on April 18. I'd guess snapshots
made during this period all are marked “release”.
Bingo. The upgrade history on the machine in question went from:
OpenBSD 6.9 (GENERIC.MP) #469: Fri Apr 16 11:07:03 MDT 2021
to:
OpenBSD 6.9-current (GENERIC.MP) #9: Sat May 8 14:55:48 MDT 2021
So the Apr 16 snapshot I assumed to be 6.9-current was masquerading as
6.9 release. Now it's all making sense. Thanks for pointing that out.
