Hi, Currently I am running CentOS 6.4 on all my production environment. Lets say after six months there is CentOS 6.5. Do i need to update it to the latest version and is it recommended to use yum update command to update to 6.5 on a production environment without testing. Please help me understand. Regards, Kaushal
On 6/9/2013 1:14 AM, Kaushal Shriyan wrote:> Do i need to update it to the > latest versionneed? no. should? probably.> 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. -- john r pierce 37N 122W somewhere on the middle of the left coast
> Hi, > > Currently I am running CentOS 6.4 on all my production environment. Lets > say after six months there is CentOS 6.5. Do i need to update it to the > latest version and is it recommended to use yum update command to update > to 6.5 on a production environment without testing. Please help me > understand. >'yum update' updates to the latest minor version (like 6.4 to 6.5), unless you specifically don't prevent this. Updates to the next major version (like 5.x to 6.x) are more challenging. -- TiN