Going from 22.09 to 22.05
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Is there any way to force this? In previous versions it would allow it and now it says "Running a newer version.".
The 22.09 is slightly too buggy right now and so I want to go back to 22.05. But its being blocked. Running the upgrade command in the console does not yield anything either.Thanks
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@darkjacky There's not a downgrade path, you'll need to reinstall and restore the config. If you have Netgate hardware you can open a free ticket to get the firmware for your model.
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That was never actually allowed. You could force it by setting the upgrade branch to 22.05 and then forcefully reinstalling everything (e.g.
pkg update -f; pkg upgrade -f) but it's better to reinstall. -
What I did because everything was down... Downloaded the 2.7 version and tried to write it to a disk but that somehow hung every time. So then I downloaded the 2.6 version and upgraded my way from there back to 22.05. This time I have ZFS so I should be able to downgrade (I think) if this happens again.
What is weird is that you can go from say 2.7 to 2.6 just fine so I don't understand why this is not the case with 22.09 to 22.05. Especially since 22.09 is a development build. It auto upgraded from 22.05 because it was set to develop branch about a month ago.
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You absolutely cannot go from 2.7 to 2.6 "just fine". No downgrade path has ever been viable.
There may be ways to force it, but it is not supported.
