[CentOS] OS upgrade from CentOS 6.x version.
Leon Fauster
leonfauster at googlemail.com
Sun Jun 9 10:02:38 UTC 2013
Am 09.06.2013 um 10:56 schrieb Kaushal Shriyan <kaushalshriyan at gmail.com>:
> On Sun, Jun 9, 2013 at 2:20 PM, Markus Falb <wnefal at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> On 09.Jun.2013, at 10:34, Timo Neuvonen wrote:
>>
>>> Updates to the next major version (like 5.x to 6.x)
>>
>> I tend to call this new install and not update.
>
> Also any difference between upgrade and update. its very confusing. I see
> on the forums some say update and some upgrade. Please help me understand.
>
5.x to 6.a - upgrade (never do this on a production system and its not supported)
6.x to 6.y - update
you can also do a partially update - lets say just security relevant stuff.
You need to have "yum-plugin-security" installed
$ yum install yum-plugin-security
and then compare the output of
$ yum --security update
vs.
$ yum update
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LF
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