On 07/22/03  daniel wrote:

> as it turns out, a mysqldump file from mysql 3.2x does not play nice
> with mysql 4.x and vice versa, so in order to be able to transfer data
> between the development environment and the live one, i have to
> downgrade my box to 3.x (i don't have any power over the live machines
> or i'd upgrade them myself).  but putting the following in
> "/etc/portage/profiles/package.mask" doesn't work:
> 
>   >=dev-db/mysql-4.0.0
> 
> however, adding the above to /usr/portage/profiles/package.mask does
> work, and so that's the route i'm going to get mysql up and running,
> but obviously on the next emerge sync, i'm going to lose this minor
> change, so i'd like to know what i missed.
> 
> any pointers?  the above line is the only contents of package.mask.

If you're using current portage (2.0.48-r4 or higher) the file has moved
to /etc/portage/ (no profiles directory).

Marius

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