uname -r gives -p4; freebsd-update says "no updates needed to update to -p7"

[Wayne Sierke]

On Sat, 2016-08-13 at 23:46 +0000, twilight wrote:
> Is it a bug or a feature?
> 
> ~> uname -r
> 10.3-RELEASE-p4
> ~> sudo freebsd-update fetch
> Looking up update.FreeBSD.org mirrors... none found.
> Fetching metadata signature for 10.3-RELEASE from
> update.FreeBSD.org...
> done.
> Fetching metadata index... done.
> Inspecting system... done.
> Preparing to download files... done.
> 
> No updates needed to update system to 10.3-RELEASE-p7.
> ~> sudo freebsd-update install
> No updates are available to install.
> Run '/usr/sbin/freebsd-update fetch' first.
> 
> 

The userland ("world") and kernel version numbers diverge when system
updates do not modify the kernel:

$ uname -r
10.3-RELEASE-p4
$ freebsd-version -k
10.3-RELEASE-p4
$ freebsd-version -u
10.3-RELEASE-p6
$