"reverting from -current to 8.0" Both if available.
On Fri, Oct 30, 2026, 7:33 AM Nick Holland <[email protected]> wrote: > On 10/28/26 06:20, Robert Alessi wrote: > > Answering to myself with one more question. > > > > A diff between the packages that I have and the same taken from 8.0 > > shows that quite a lot of packages have changed. > > > > As I keep a list from pkg_info -mz in my backups, I wonder if a > > solution would not be to first remove everything with pkg_delete -X, > > then do sysupgrade -R 80 and finally reinstall all my packages from > > the list. > > > > Any thoughts about this course of action? > > > > Many thanks, > > > > R > > > > On Wed, Oct 28, 2026 at 10:08:31AM +0100, Robert Alessi wrote: > >> Hi, > >> > >> I made a big mistake last Sunday. I ran sysupgrade -ns instead of -n > >> on a disc where I absolutely need to have -stable. > >> > >> Since then, I've been running `pkg_add -u` every morning, but I never > >> did a sysupgrade because it wasn't until this morning that I realized my > >> mistake. > >> > >> As of now, pkg_add -u reports only this: > >> > >> Couldn't find updates for ministream-0.99.1 > py3-standard-pkg-resources-1.0.0 > >> > >> Not surprisingly, as these packages are missing in -stable. > >> > >> I know I'll be able to catch up 8.1 anyway once it's released. But is > >> there a safe way to revert from a -current that never was sysupgraded > >> to -stable at this time? > >> > >> I feel sorry about myself, any help will be much appreciated. > >> > >> -- Robert > > > > First of all... evaluate your "absolutely need to have -stable" statement. > > But, if you really decide you must run -stable, here are the options I see: > > * You should have good backups. Follow the process you would follow if > your > storage had failed to rebuild your system back to the desired state and > date. > If you can't do that -- recognize you are doing things wrong, and > running -stable isn't your biggest problem. If you do have a backup, but > restoring from it scares you...you don't have a backup. > > * Being we aren't very far past -release, you may have luck removing > existing > packages, forcing a downgrade to 8.0-release, and reinstalling the > packages. > I'd give this a "very likely to succeed" rating...but I've left weasel > words > in there to cover my tail if it blows up on you. > > * Complete reinstall -- probably to another disk, so you have the old one > for > reference. Install packages, copy config files and data...done. > > Nick. > >
