FreeBSD-update fails finding upgrade

[Glen Barber]

On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 10:58 AM, Predrag Aleksic<apetar at gmail.com> wrote:
> freebsd-update fetch
> Looking up update.FreeBSD.org mirrors... 3 mirrors found.
> Fetching metadata signature for 7.2-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 7.2-RELEASE-p2.
>
>
> Is that normal? I mean, there obviously seems to be a 7.2-RELEASE-p3 but
> then why isn't my system getting updated to that?
>

The patch version is only bumped when there is a change in the kernel.

See also: http://unix.derkeiler.com/Mailing-Lists/FreeBSD/questions/2009-03/msg00069.html


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Glen Barber