Am 15.04.2014 13:53, schrieb Johan De Meersman: > ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Dimitre Radoulov" <cichomit...@gmail.com> >> Sent: Tuesday, 15 April, 2014 12:17:54 PM >> >> for major release upgrades - 5.x to 6.x - we'll use a different hosts. > > I would like to point out that where MySQL is concerned, the minor versions > are a major upgrade - 5.0->5.1, 5.1->5.5 and 5.5->5.6 are all MAJOR changes, > and you would do well to go through the release notes for each version.
he is talking about a long outstanding update of *CENTOS* from 5.5 to 5.10 which does not anything to the mysql package _______________________________________ Am 15.04.2014 13:33, schrieb Radoulov, Dimitre:> On 15/04/2014 12:18, Reindl Harald wrote: > Am 15.04.2014 12:05, schrieb Radoulov, Dimitre: > [...] >>> o 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 >> el5 = RHEL5 >> el6 = RHEL6 >> >> may i suggest to hire someone managing your systems > [...] > > It seems that I gave a wrong impression, but we actually have a big > team of sys admins :) so what are they doing then all day long since you still run 5.5 released 4 years ago followed by 5 minor-updates bringing critical security fixes? 5.5, also termed Update 5, 30 March 2010 (kernel 2.6.18-194)[17] 5.6, also termed Update 6, 13 January 2011 (kernel 2.6.18-238)[17] 5.7, also termed Update 7, 21 July 2011 (kernel 2.6.18-274)[17] 5.8, also termed Update 8, 20 February 2012 (kernel 2.6.18-308)[17] 5.9, also termed Update 9, 7 January 2013 (kernel 2.6.18-348)[17] 5.10, also termed Update 10, 1 October 2013 (kernel 2.6.18-371)[17] > And we, DBAs, are managing the databases, > thus my initial question ... and you are stating that you don't use the distribution packages of MySQL so it is not affected at all from a dist-upgrade?
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