Upgrading from 25.7 RC2

[planetf1]

Last week I upgraded to 25.7 RC2 - which has worked well. I did this by changing to the development stream and then updating.

Now that 25.7 is released I switched back to the community stream & searched for updated.

mostly the suggested updates looked good, but I noticed this on the preview:

opnsense   N/A   25.7   new   OPNsense
opnsense-devel   25.7.r_33   26.1.a_4   upgrade   OPNsense
opnsense-update   25.7.r2   25.7   upgrade   OPNsense

So presumably that would result in both opnsense & opnsense-devel being installed (with the latter being on the next alpha)

Is there an appropriate way around this to get to 25.7? Do I just accept?

It's not a big issue -- I have a snapshot (proxmox) from before the update to 25.7 rc2 so I could revert to that and do a normal update. My config is also backed up automatically to google drive, and it's only a home system. So no big risks.

But it was intriguing to know if there is an appropriate process to follow here? (other than don't)

[planetf1]

I was able to sort this out (thanks to gemini)
 - unlocked/force removed opnsense-devel
 - ran bootstrap
 - force-sync

Seems intact - nice to see how the recovery processes work

[newsense]

The appropriate way would have been to change the Type from Development to Community in System -Firmware -Settings


What you did was destructive and risky - and uncalled for. But it was golden guidance from AI.

[franco]

Yes:

> opnsense   N/A   25.7   new   OPNsense
> opnsense-devel   25.7.r_33   26.1.a_4   upgrade   OPNsense
> opnsense-update   25.7.r2   25.7   upgrade   OPNsense

Looks correct to me. Wants community "opnsense" as "new". pkg has a bug where it thinks opnsense-devel needs to be upgraded because it is newer than what is currently installed but it is being replaced anyway as you can see from the "new".

> The appropriate way would have been to change the Type from Development to Community in System -Firmware -Settings

Given that "new" thing it was already set this way. Just needed an "update" click.


Cheers,
Franco