freebsd-update results in 12.0-p4 kernel and 12.0-p5 userland

[Paul Smith]

No need to worry. If a patch only affects userland, the kernel version
printed by 'freebsd-version -k' will not be updated. The userland
version printed by 'freebsd-version -u' will show the updated patch
level.

On Thu, May 16, 2019 at 12:39 PM tech-lists <tech-lists at zyxst.net> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I updated a 12.0-p3 system with freebsd-update (fetch and install) and rebooted:
>
> redacted:~ % freebsd-version -ku
> 12.0-RELEASE-p4
> 12.0-RELEASE-p5
>
> maybe there was more to update?
>
> redacted:~ % sudo freebsd-update fetch
> Looking up update.FreeBSD.org mirrors... 3 mirrors found.
> Fetching metadata signature for 12.0-RELEASE from update2.freebsd.org...
> done.
> Fetching metadata index... done.
> Inspecting system... done.
> Preparing to download files... done.
>
> No updates needed to update system to 12.0-RELEASE-p5.
>
> should I worry?
>
> thanks,
> --
> J.