On Sun, Nov 30, 2025 at 08:04:46PM -0500, Nick Holland wrote: [...] > unrelated suggestion: script your chroot updates. then it becomes > * sysupdate -s > * pkg_add -u > * updatechroot > done... > yes, getting your updatchroot script working perfectly is a bit of > testing, but SO worth it once done.
Yes of course, this makes sense and Yes, and that's what I'm going to do. I feel a bit sorry for myself that it's the fact of having to do this every time there's an update that's pushing me to do it today... > back to the topic: well, here's your choices: > 1) run -current until next release. Probably no issue, other than you > may need/want to do a sysupgrade -s along the way. > > 2) push the system backwards to 7.8. May create all kinds of terrifying > issues...or may work just fine. I won't take such a risk. > A couple thoughts... > 1) IF you haven't yet upgraded packages, pushing backwards may work > fairly well. IF you have upgraded your packages, I'd suggest riding > the -current wave. Really. I did upgrade everything, and took care of running sysclean in addition to remove old files that are no longer needed. (I always do this.) > 2) I just happened to do this today to troubleshoot a bizarre and > subtle problem(*). I did not have problems with the backwards push, > and in fact, I'm still running packages from the week old snapshot. > However, the "fanciest" package I have on this machine is "rsync", > and rsync is really easy-going in terms of dependencies. > > Your millage will differ. But the official answer is "forward only" > and if you wish to push backwards, you get to keep the pieces if > it breaks. But then, you were already semi-resigned to reinstalling. > But personally...I normally only run snapshots. You've just convinced me to do the same thing, thank you. > Nick. > > (*) This problem probably won't impact you unless you run a very old > revision of the firmware on an ixl(4) card. But I haven't had a > chance to properly track down the problem yet, so ixl(4) MAY be > innocent. Luckily, no, that's not the case for me! Thanks, Robert
