On Sun, Jun 9, 2013 at 1:57 PM, John R Pierce pierce@hogranch.com wrote:

On 6/9/2013 1:14 AM, Kaushal Shriyan wrote:

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Do i need to update it to the latest version

need? no. should? probably.

Thanks John for the quick reply. Not sure i understand your reply.

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and is it recommended to use yum update command to update to 6.5 on a production environment without testing.

if 'production' means what it does in my $job's enterprise environment, absolutely not. we do nothing to a production environment without testing first in a staging environment that replicates production. updated of complicated production systems is tricky.

that said, things like development servers, hobby internet webservers running a few blogs and stuff, things like that, I regularly do yum update's on, but I also have backups if its at all important, so I can revert to last night if there's a problem.

You said backups. Any backup program you suggest to back up all configuration files and data?

Regards

Kaushal

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.

Am 09.06.2013 um 10:56 schrieb Kaushal Shriyan kaushalshriyan@gmail.com:

On Sun, Jun 9, 2013 at 2:20 PM, Markus Falb wnefal@gmail.com wrote:

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On 09.Jun.2013, at 10:34, Timo Neuvonen wrote:

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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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