[Bug 260859] freebsd-update feedback/messages should be more broadly understandable, when patch levels differ for kernel and userland

https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=260859

            Bug ID: 260859
           Summary: freebsd-update feedback/messages should be more
                    broadly understandable, when patch levels differ for
                    kernel and userland
           Product: Base System
           Version: Unspecified
          Hardware: Any
               URL: https://cgit.freebsd.org/src/tree/usr.sbin/freebsd-upd
                    ate/freebsd-update.sh?id=48ffe56ac5b7adb5b851d32be12b2
                    ec0f13705a4#n1448
                OS: Any
            Status: New
          Severity: Affects Some People
          Priority: ---
         Component: bin
          Assignee: bugs@FreeBSD.org
          Reporter: grahamperrin@gmail.com

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?

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