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Date:      Sat, 07 Jan 2017 23:37:05 +0100
From:      DutchDaemon <dutchdaemon@freebsd.org>
To:        =?UTF-8?B?RmVybmFuZG8gSGVycmVybyBDYXJyw7Nu?= <elferdo@gmail.com>, "freebsd-stable" <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Cannot update system from 11-RELEASE-p2 to 11-RELEASE-p6
Message-ID:  <1597b13fe68.278d.b36d34a15fda208b80f54b6ad54d9e04@freebsd.org>
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On January 7, 2017 23:27:04 Fernando Herrero CarrĂ³n <elferdo@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I am seeing a strange behaviour. I run freebsd-update fetch:
>
> % sudo freebsd-update fetch
> Password:
> Looking up update.FreeBSD.org mirrors... 4 mirrors found.
> Fetching metadata signature for 11.0-RELEASE from update6.freebsd.org...
> done.
> Fetching metadata index... done.
> Inspecting system... done.
> Preparing to download files... done.
>
> No updates needed to update system to 11.0-RELEASE-p6.
>
> But:
>
> % uname -a
> FreeBSD pantera 11.0-RELEASE-p2 FreeBSD 11.0-RELEASE-p2 #0: Mon Oct 24
> 06:55:27 UTC 2016
>
> Does this make sense?

 Use 'freebsd-version' to see the userland patch level; 'uname' gives you 
the kernel patch level; the kernel doesn't receive patches at the same rate 
as userland does.





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