Re: sysupgrade -s by mistake

On Mon, Dec 01, 2025 at 09:15:16PM +0100, Florian Obser wrote:
> On 2025-12-01 17:32 UTC, Stuart Henderson <stu.lists@spacehopper.org> wrote:
> > On 2025-11-30, Robert Alessi <alessi@robertalessi.net> 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).
>
> One way to do that is to just run sysupgrade (without -s):
> $ sysctl kern.version
> kern.version=OpenBSD 7.8-current (GENERIC.MP) #128: Sun Nov 30 21:32:00 MST 2025
> deraadt@amd64.openbsd.org:/usr/src/sys/arch/amd64/compile/GENERIC.MP
> $ doas sysupgrade
> Fetching from https://cdn.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/7.9/amd64/
> sysupgrade: Error retrieving https://cdn.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/7.9/amd64/SHA256.sig: 404 Not Found
> Fetching from https://cdn.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/7.8/amd64/
> SHA256.sig 100% |*************************************| 2324 00:00
> Signature Verified
> BUILDINFO 100% |*************************************| 54 00:00
> Downloaded release is older than installed system. Use -f to force downgrade.
>
> It will just do nothing until 7.9 is out. Something we fixed/implemented recently-ish.

Wow. Amazing to say the least!

Thank you!

Robert