I did a very long experiment. It might be unorthodox enough for people to want to burn me at the stake, but I was influenced by the problem of not being able to install packages.
I installed 6.7
installed all the third-party packages I want
upgraded to -current with
sysupgrade -s
upgraded the packages with
pkg_add -u -v
The result is a working system. (at the moment) I made these two posts with the new machine using -current. How long the system works is another story. Launching Iridium produced an error
Quote:
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amdgpu: os_same_file_description couldn't determine if two DRM fds reference the same file description. If they do, bad things may happen!
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So I do not know if the system will still be working tomorrow, but it is a huge step forward.
IF the system continues working it want to eventually go back to using a -release. If -current is working on this hardware is it safe to assume 6.8 will work or would it be safer to wait until 6.9?