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 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list