freebsd-update wants to update to version I'm running

[LuKreme]

 # uname -a
FreeBSD ns1.covisp.net 8.4-RELEASE-p7 FreeBSD 8.4-RELEASE-p7 #0: Sat Jan 11 01:45:47 UTC 2014     root at amd64-builde
r.daemonology.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  amd64
 # freebsd-update -r 9.0-RELEASE fetch
Looking up update.FreeBSD.org mirrors... 5 mirrors found.
Fetching metadata signature for 8.4-RELEASE from update2.freebsd.org... done.
Fetching metadata index... done.
Inspecting system... done.   
Preparing to download files... done.

The following files will be updated as part of updating to 8.4-RELEASE-p7:
^C

I get the same when I try without a -r setting as well.

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