On Mon, Dec 01, 2025 at 05:32:13PM -0000, Stuart Henderson 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).
Meaning that when at some point I see 7.8 dropping -beta and moving to 7.9, all I'll have to do is not running pkg_add with -Dsnap? OR, wait until the first 7.9-current arrives to run sysupgrade -f -R 7.9? Either way, this is very good to know. Not that I don't want to run -current. On the contrary, this is what I do on one of my machines at home for the project “TeX Live for OpenBSD,” here: <https://sr.ht/~ralessi/texlive-openbsd>. (Only needed for those who need to install newly released packages and/or update existing ones over the year. Or have binaries not provided in ports like biber and things like that.) Much appreciated, thank you!
