Problem updating a 10.3-RELEASE system

[Steve O'Hara-Smith]

On Wed, 14 Dec 2016 13:48:41 -0500
Jim Trigg <jtrigg at michaelines.net> wrote:

> azure() ~# uname -a
> FreeBSD azure.heraldsnet.org 10.3-RELEASE-p11 FreeBSD 10.3-RELEASE-p11 
> #0: Mon Oct 24 18:49:24 UTC 2016 
> root at amd64-builder.daemonology.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  amd64
> azure() ~# freebsd-update fetch
> Looking up update.FreeBSD.org mirrors... 4 mirrors found.
> Fetching metadata signature for 10.3-RELEASE from update5.freebsd.org... 
> done.
> Fetching metadata index... done.
> Inspecting system... done.
> Preparing to download files... done.
> 
> No updates needed to update system to 10.3-RELEASE-p14.
> azure() ~# freebsd-update install
> No updates are available to install.
> Run '/usr/sbin/freebsd-update fetch' first.
> azure() ~#
> 
> This makes no sense to me.

	uname reports the kernel version, which last changed in p11
(p12,13 and 14 were all userland only updates). To see the system version
use freebsd-version optionally with -u for userland version or -k for
kernel version (by default you get the userland version).

-- 
Steve O'Hara-Smith <steve at sohara.org>