freebsd-update upgrade -r 7.4-RELEASE-p12

[Mike Brown]

alexus wrote:
> ok, I just did fetch & install and got bumped from p5 to p9
> 
> # uname -a
> FreeBSD XX.XXXXX.org 7.4-RELEASE-p9 FreeBSD 7.4-RELEASE-p9 #0: Mon Jun 11
> 19:47:58 UTC 2012
> root at amd64-builder.daemonology.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC
>  amd64
> #
> 
> can I take it all the way to -p12?

-p10 through -p12 probably didn't involve any kernel changes. Bumping the 
reported patchlevel isn't considered important enough to warrant building a 
new kernel.

If your sources are in /usr/src, do this:

grep -v # /usr/src/sys/conf/newvers.sh | head -4