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From: Garrett Cooper <youshi10@u.washington.edu>
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Subject: Re: I went to 8.0 current accidently :(
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Philip M. Gollucci wrote:
> Josh Paetzel wrote:
>   
>> Regardless, there's no real supported downgrade procedure.  It's probably 
>> possible, but you are in wizard territory.
>>     
> Its possible, not easy, even with mismatched kernels.
> make -k
>
> repeatedly seems to install enough stuff the first time that the second
> time its really close.
>
> Don't try it in production.

Actually, there isn't too much of a difference between 7.x and 8.x right 
now (in comparison to what there will be later on), so I don't see why 
make buildworld and buildkernel with their respective install targets 
wouldn't be feasible. You just might have some extra junk libraries or 
features sitting around your harddrive from 8.x that aren't present in 
7.x, but not too many..

Cheers,
-Garrett