OK, thanks, good to know. Dave
On 4/3/22, Stuart Henderson <[email protected]> wrote: > On 2022/04/03 14:02, Raymond, David wrote: >> 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? > > Official binaries do not have "-stable" (neither releases nor > syspatches). If your kernel has -stable in the version string then > it is a self-built kernel and sysupgrade doesn't handle it > > At the current point in time, snapshots say "OpenBSD 7.1" with no > suffix. When running such a kernel, if you want to do something other > than "upgrade to whatever is currently in the /snapshots/ directory" > or "upgrade to 7.*2* release when available" you either need to > modify the sysupgrade shell script, or download the files yourself > (typically the easy way to do this is to download the bsd.rd installer > from the version you want and install manually) > > Unless you modify sysupgrade you can't get from a "OpenBSD 7.1" kernel > to downloading files from the /7.1/ directory. > >> Dave Raymond >> >> On 4/3/22, Stuart Henderson <[email protected]> wrote: >> > On 2022-04-03, Steve Fairhead <[email protected]> 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 >> [email protected] >> http://kestrel.nmt.edu/~raymond > -- David J. Raymond [email protected] http://kestrel.nmt.edu/~raymond
