Cannot update system from 11-RELEASE-p2 to 11-RELEASE-p6

[DutchDaemon]

On January 7, 2017 23:27:04 Fernando Herrero Carrón <elferdo at 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.