A. Khattri wrote: > On Thu, 23 Nov 2006, Markus Schönhaber wrote: > > A. Khattri wrote: > > > More importantly, I would like to know why MUST I update to MySQL 5? > > > > Why do you think you "MUST"? I doubt that there exists a law that says > > that you have to upgrade or you will be sent to jail if you don't. > > > > > Im running 4.1 quite happily and have mysql-5 masked out in > > > /etc/portage/package.mask. > > > > What's the problem then? > > Nothing - apart from not being to *any* updates:
Ah. And you chose to not provide the slightest hint of what you're really talking about in your first post, because...? > # emerge -uDtav world > > These are the packages that would be merged, in reverse order: > > Calculating world dependencies | > !!! All ebuilds that could satisfy "=dev-db/mysql-5.0*" have been masked. > !!! One of the following masked packages is required to complete your > request: > - dev-db/mysql-5.0.26-r1 (masked by: package.mask) > > > For more information, see MASKED PACKAGES section in the emerge man page > or > refer to the Gentoo Handbook. > (dependency required by "virtual/mysql-5.0" [ebuild]) To me, this seems to indicate that masking virtual/mysql-5.0 too might help. Regards mks -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
