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On Fri, May 16, 2003 at 10:16:36AM -0600, Matthew Walker wrote: |
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> As someone who has used MySQL 4 in a production environment on Gentoo since |
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> the official release was declared stable, I'm baffled why it hasn't been |
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> unmasked yet. It works beautifully, and is a seamless upgrade process. I'd |
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> really like to use it on my new production server at work, but I refuse to |
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> use any masked packages, to keep maintenance overhead to a minimum. |
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> Anyway... Is there a reason it's still masked? |
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Seeing the thread on this, I'd like to speak up with an answer, since I |
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do a lot of the maintance on MySQL and it's related ebuilds. |
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The upgrade ISN'T as seamless as we would like. Presently if you are |
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running MySQL-3 and you emerge MySQL-4, there is an instruction telling |
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you to rebuild everything that links against MySQL. |
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We have had a LARGE number of bugs submitted because people didn't read |
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the instruction to rebuild their system and then all complained about |
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stuff being broken. |
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As such, we are waiting for a decent script or better reverse |
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dependancies in portage to release it to stable. Such a script is |
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showstopper for the 1.4 release so it will be done. The same problem |
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exists with a number of other packages. |
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