Re: sysupgrade -s by mistake

On Mon, Dec 01, 2025 at 09:38:18AM +0100, Manuel Giraud wrote:
> Robert Alessi <alessi@robertalessi.net> writes:
>
> > 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. Except going to this ill-advised process of -f -R 7.x...
>
> Are you sure about this? Because reading /usr/sbin/sysupgrade, it seems
> that the SNAP variable is essentially used to build the correct URL so
> once this URL exists it should work, no?

Yes, I think you're right, thank you!

From this: https://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20251001044004

And especially this comment: "this is not the 7.8 release, but is part
of the standard build-up to the release." I thought there was no way
to catch 7.9. Wrongly.

Thanks!

Robert