So, to clarify, if I upgrade to a snapshot after upgrading to 7.0 stable, what happens when 7.1 stable comes along? Can I get to that stable release from a previous snapshot?
Dave Raymond On 4/3/22, Stuart Henderson <stu.li...@spacehopper.org> wrote: > On 2022-04-03, Steve Fairhead <st...@fivetrees.com> wrote: >> On 07/11/2021 10:35, Steve Fairhead wrote: >>> >>> That's what I'd expect, and I did indeed run sysupgrade without specific >>> >>> options. Nonetheless I seem to have wound up with -current when I would >>> have expected -stable: >>> >>> # dmesg | grep OpenBSD >>> OpenBSD 6.9-stable (GENERIC.MP) #0: Mon Aug 23 21:44:18 BST 2021 >>> OpenBSD 6.9-stable (GENERIC.MP) #0: Sun Oct 31 10:03:46 GMT 2021 >>> OpenBSD 6.9-stable (GENERIC.MP) #0: Sun Oct 31 10:03:46 GMT 2021 >>> OpenBSD 7.0-current (RAMDISK_CD) #71: Fri Nov 5 10:13:26 MDT 2021 >>> OpenBSD 7.0-current (GENERIC.MP) #72: Fri Nov 5 10:08:43 MDT 2021 >>> OpenBSD 7.0-stable (GENERIC.MP) #0: Sat Nov 6 13:30:45 GMT 2021 >>> OpenBSD 7.0-stable (GENERIC.MP) #0: Sat Nov 6 16:15:08 GMT 2021 >>> OpenBSD 7.0-stable (GENERIC.MP) #0: Sat Nov 6 19:53:47 GMT 2021 >>> >>> I have no idea how this can have happened. I would dearly love to >>> understand what I did wrong. >> >> I *finally* figured out what happened, after some experimenting with a >> spare machine. Running sysupgrade with no parameters on -stable (i.e. >> -release + patches, rebuilt) upgrades to a snapshot (i.e. -current). >> >> Is this expected behaviour? > > sysupgrade only copes with what look like release versions (no version > suffix, upgrades to release+0.1 with no arguments, or snapshot with -s) > or snapshots (-current or -beta suffix, by default -current upgrades > to release+0.1 or -beta upgrades to release, or snapshot with -s). > > It doesn't handle -stable, and it doesn't handle going from the current > situation which is "it's still snapshots rather than release but there's > no suffix" to the forthcoming release. > > > -- David J. Raymond david.raym...@nmt.edu http://kestrel.nmt.edu/~raymond
