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From 5.8-current to 5.8 Release
Hi All,
one my server is still running current Code:
OpenBSD 5.8-current (GENERIC) #1278: Mon Sep 7 06:55:09 MDT 2015 deraadt@amd64.openbsd.org:/usr/src/sys/arch/amd64/compile/GENERIC real mem = 520081408 (495MB) avail mem = 500461568 (477MB) mpath0 at root scsibus0 at mpath0: 256 targets mainbus0 at root bios0 at mainbus0 acpi0 at bios0: rev 0 acpi0: sleep states S5 Can I expect that OpenBSD 5.8-current will be tagged on 18.10.2015 and becomes -release? http://www.openbsd.org/58.html Can I still upgrade my 5.8-current till 18.10.2015 not to have newer kernel than 5.8-release? Thanks Valus |
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OK, and how do I know that current is tagged and becomes release when I do not build from source?
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Last edited by jggimi; 5th October 2015 at 06:49 PM. Reason: added cvsweb link |
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This is only a heuristic, & watching CVS is far more accurate. |
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So if I want to see date of OPENBSD_X_Y_BASE is it enough to check it via http://cvsweb.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cv...onf/newvers.sh like here OPENBSD_5_8_BASE on Thu Jul 23 16:26:57 2015 UTC Code:
Revision 1.139 / (download) - annotate - [select for diffs], Thu Jul 23 16:26:57 2015 UTC (2 months, 1 week ago) by deraadt Branch: MAIN CVS Tags: OPENBSD_5_8_BASE Branch point for: OPENBSD_5_8 Changes since 1.138: +3 -3 lines Diff to previous 1.138 (colored) remove -beta tag. take that as a hint. |
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This time I missed the upgrade to 5.8 release and will continue with upgrading of current.
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Thanks for this. I also missed that the snapshots are made from -current and are ahead of the upcoming release. Waiting for 5.9 now
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I did actually install 5.8 release over the -current snapshot I had using bsd.rd and the upgrade option. Everything worked fine except for installed packages that had to reinstalled from scratch. I also had to trace down some leftover files such as the newer libc.so and delete them.
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Be careful. Your "downgrade" via the upgrade script may still have unexpected -current components remaining, even after your manual deletions. It's an unsupported process for valid reasons.
The supported process to downgrade from -current to -release is to install the -release, then restore selected components from backup, such as:
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