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Subject: Re: freebsd downgrade
From: Walter Hop <freebsd@spam.lifeforms.nl>
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> I had a problems with FreeBSD 10.2-BETA2. I used freebsd-update ugrade
> and update FreeBSD 10.1-RELEASE.
> Is it possible to downgrade BETA2 to 10.1-RELEASE with freebsd-update
> upgrade -r 10.1-RELEASE, please?

In my experience, downgrading with freebsd-update works fine, although I =
only went back from 10.1 to 9.3, but arguably that=E2=80=99s a much =
bigger jump. We=E2=80=99ve done it on around 40 machines over ssh. You =
just have to skip the initial reboot, in order to stay in the new =
kernel. Here is a blog post I wrote about it: =
https://lifeforms.nl/20141224/downgrading-with-freebsd-update/ =
<https://lifeforms.nl/20141224/downgrading-with-freebsd-update/>

I can=E2=80=99t guarantee that going back from 10.2 to 10.1 will work =
too; there might be problems, but if you try it, let me know your =
experiences and I=E2=80=99ll update the post.

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Walter Hop | PGP key: https://lifeforms.nl/pgp