On Mon, Dec 01, 2025 at 09:15:16PM +0100, Florian Obser wrote: > On 2025-12-01 17:32 UTC, Stuart Henderson <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 2025-11-30, Robert Alessi <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On Sun, Nov 30, 2025 at 09:26:53PM +0100, Manuel Giraud wrote: > >>> > >>> If you don't plan to install new packages in the meantime, you could > >>> wait as is until 7.9 is out. > >> > >> The thing is there will be no way to move from -current to 7.9 when > >> it's out. > > > > Sure there is. As long as you do not upgrade past 7.9 via snapshots > > you can just upgrade as normal when the release is made available. > > (If you hit a snapshot which declares itself as 7.9-current then > > you're past the release, but if you're _only_ just past it, there > > won't be any library changes to worry about). > > One way to do that is to just run sysupgrade (without -s): > $ sysctl kern.version > kern.version=OpenBSD 7.8-current (GENERIC.MP) #128: Sun Nov 30 21:32:00 MST > 2025 > [email protected]:/usr/src/sys/arch/amd64/compile/GENERIC.MP > $ doas sysupgrade > Fetching from https://cdn.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/7.9/amd64/ > sysupgrade: Error retrieving > https://cdn.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/7.9/amd64/SHA256.sig: 404 Not Found > Fetching from https://cdn.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/7.8/amd64/ > SHA256.sig 100% |*************************************| 2324 00:00 > Signature Verified > BUILDINFO 100% |*************************************| 54 00:00 > Downloaded release is older than installed system. Use -f to force downgrade. > > It will just do nothing until 7.9 is out. Something we fixed/implemented > recently-ish.
Wow. Amazing to say the least! Thank you! Robert
