On Mon, Dec 01, 2025 at 12:29:56PM -0000, Stuart Henderson wrote: > On 2025-11-30, Phil Maker <[email protected]> wrote: > > --000000000000059d200644d51237 > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" > > Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > > > > FWIW, > > > > I did the backgrade `sysupgrade -f -R 7.8` option > > noting the manual says as you know: > > > > -R version Upgrade to a specific release version. > > Only upgrades from one > > version to the next are tested. Skipping versions may work. > > **Downgrading is unlikely to work.** > > > > But it worked fine so maybe give it a go after backups. > > > > It'd be interesting to know the reasons it commonly fails. > > Configuration files going backwards would make sense, but > > are all the binaries downdated consistently? > > Some of the libraries that have been updated post-7.8 will still > be left around and could cause problems. They can be removed but > that may cause problems too and I'd only consider it on a machine > with console access. > > (If packages were updated while on -current the sane way to > recover from that after "upgrading backwards" would be to remove > all packages and reinstall from release/-stable).
This is I wanted to do. Not anymore.
