Bug 260859 - freebsd-update feedback/messages should be more broadly understandable, when patch levels differ for kernel and userland
Summary: freebsd-update feedback/messages should be more broadly understandable, when ...
Status: New
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Product: Base System
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Component: bin (show other bugs)
Version: Unspecified
Hardware: Any Any
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Assignee: freebsd-bugs (Nobody)
URL: https://cgit.freebsd.org/src/tree/usr...
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Reported: 2022-01-01 12:40 UTC by Graham Perrin
Modified: 2022-01-01 12:40 UTC (History)
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Description Graham Perrin freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2022-01-01 12:40:15 UTC 
Messages such as this are sometimes a source of confusion: 

> No updates needed to update system to 12.2-RELEASE-p11.
> WARNING: FreeBSD 12.2-RELEASE-p7 is approaching its End-of-Life date.
> It is strongly recommended that you upgrade to a newer
> release within the next 1 month.

-- <https://old.reddit.com/comments/r9kiki/-/hndsx2n/>, 
   in context <https://redd.it/r9kiki>:

>> I've noticed that when I run a freebsd-version -ku command it 
>> says that my kernel and userland have different patch level version, 
>> kernel is p7, userland is p11.
>> 
>> Tried to run freebsd-update fetch but it says: "No updates needed 
>> to update system to 12.2-RELEASE-p11".
>> 
>> Is that normal?