possibly silly question regarding freebsd-update

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On Tue, Mar 30, 2021 at 12:07:41PM -0400, Karl Denninger wrote:

>Ok, that's fair; it DOES show -p5 for the user side.
>
>$ freebsd-version -ru
>12.2-RELEASE-p4
>12.2-RELEASE-p5
>
>So that says my userland is -p5 while the kernel, which did not change
>(even though if you built from source it would carry the -p5 number) is -p4.
>
>I can live with that as it allows me to "see" that indeed the revision
>is present without having source on the box.

it just threw me that the thing-that-was-updated didn't update its
version information when queried. Absent sources, how can I tell it 
was updated (apart from freebsd-version -u) ?

-- 
J.
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