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 -- LF