On Wed, Feb 10, 2016 at 03:58:38PM GMT, Ville Valkonen wrote: > On Feb 10, 2016 5:16 PM, "Paco Esteban" <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Hi misc@, > > > > I've one machine that has 5.8-current (20th of October snapshot). > > This is a "hardly-ever-touched" machine and I would prefer to have it > > following -stable. > > Is it possible to go from 5.8-current to 5.9 (when it's available) using > > the installer ? > > > > I've been using OpenBSD since 3.4 but never really played with -current > > (with the exception of some tests playing with crappy SSD performance). > > > > Cheers, > > > > -- > > Paco Esteban. > > GnuPG key: https://onna.be/44CA735E.html > > > > [demime 1.01d removed an attachment of type application/pgp-signature > which had a name of signature.asc] > > > > Hi, > > downgrading is not supported.
That snapshot is from *before* the snapshot which is to become 5.9, so that's *not* downgrading. If you take enough care, i.e. make sure you follow current.html[0] and the update guide once it becomes available[1] after 5.9 gets released, then it should work just fine - at the end of the day it's no different to upgrading to a snapshot which is to become 5.9. Obviously, this is *not* a supported upgrade path so, if anything goes wrong, you're on your own. > Anyway, if it's barely touched, why not to just spin a fresh install? > > -- > Regards, > Ville > Regards, Raf [0] http://www.openbsd.org/faq/current.html [1] http://www.openbsd.org/faq/upgrade59.html P.S. If you don't mind occasional glitches - a price to pay for running bleeding edge - then just carry on using snapshots.
