Re: [gentoo-user] Installing old version of a package

[Leandro Melo de Sales]

Thank you Holly, I understood your explanation. I'm now installing the
4.0.25 version.

Leandro.

2005/12/3, Holly Bostick <motub@××××××.nl>:
> Leandro Melo de Sales schreef:
> > Hi folks,
> >
> > Recently I installed mysql using emerge mysql, but the version that
> > was installed is 4.1.14, but I'd like to install the last available
> > version of the 4.0 release. How can I do this?
> >
>
>
> dev-db/mysql
>      Available versions:  3.23.58-r1 4.0.25-r2 ~4.0.26 4.1.14 ~4.1.15
> ~4.1.15-r1 *4.1.15-r30 ~5.0.15 ~5.0.16-r3 *5.0.16-r30
>      Installed:           none
>      Homepage:            http://www.mysql.com/
>      Description:         A fast, multi-threaded, multi-user SQL
> database server
>
>
> So I guess you want 4.0.26? Well, that's unstable, and the fact that you
> just installed 4.1.14 suggests that your ACCEPT_KEYWORDS setting in
> /etc/make.conf is set to stable (assuming x86 arch).
>
> The best way to solve this would be by using a mixture of settings in
> /etc/portage/package.mask and /etc/portage/package.keywords:
>
> Assuming that the directory /etc/portage exists already (create it if not):
>
> (as root)
>
> echo ">=dev-db/mysql-4.1.14" >>/etc/portage/package.mask
>
> to mask all versions of mysql greater than or equal to 4.1.14
>
> and
>
> echo "dev-db/mysql ~x86" >>/etc/portage/package.keywords
>
> to unmask the unstable versions below the masked version (thus 4.0.26).
>
> or you could unmask the specific version using
>
> echo "=dev-dv/mysql-4.0.26 ~x86" >>/etc/portage/package.keywords
>
> but be warned that this will not enable you to upgrade if 4.0.26 is
> revised (4.0.26-r1) or upgraded (4.0.27), as those will still be masked
> by the ~arch keword, as opposed to the previous command, which unmasks
> all future unstable versions below 4.1.14.
>
> If you use a different arch, change the "~x86" to your correct arch
> (assuming that the version of mysql you want is available for that arch;
> if it is not, adapt the above commands to the available versions that
> you want to mask and unmask.
>
> Then an emerge -uav world should come up with a [UD] for mysql (the
> upgrade is a downgrade), and whatever else might need to be updated on
> your system; if you don't want to emerge the other upgrades, just do an
> emerge -uav mysql (but that will put mysql in your world file if it was
> previously installed as a dependency of something else, and you may or
> may not want mysql in your world file. But that's your choice).
>
> Hope this helps.
> Holly
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