2014-04-15 12:05 GMT+02:00 Radoulov, Dimitre <cichomit...@gmail.com>:
> Hi Reindl, > > > On 15/04/2014 11:32, Reindl Harald wrote: > >> Am 15.04.2014 11:22, schrieb Radoulov, Dimitre: >> >>> we're going to patch our MySQL servers. Most of them are RHEL/OEL 5.x >>> and are going to be upgraded to 5.x+n (for >>> example 5.5 to 5.10). >>> I don't seem to find anything about this in the official documentation >>> (verifying the patch compatibility, >>> relinking etc.). >>> >>> P.S. We're using the rpm distributions from dev.mysql.com (the official >>> website) >>> >> RHEL is a LTS enterprise distribution >> there are no ABI breakages, that's why you use RHEL or a clone at all >> > > Thank you! So I suppose we need to, or actually we *must*, upgrade the > binaries only in case of a release upgrade (RHEL 5 to 6, for example), > i.e. when a different binary distribution exsists: > MySQL-5.6.17-1.rhel5.x86_64.rpm to MySQL-5.6.17-1.el6.x86_64.rpm. > > > Hello, Upgrades are always scary. Don't you have another server (staging) with same hardware/packages so you can try there first before doing it in production? Manuel.
