Free interpretation of Maurice van der Pot replay to this same email on gentoo-dev :
> --result-file=BACKUP_MYSQL_4.0.SQL > [...] > > cmd# cat backup_mysql_4.0.sql \ Those two are the same file, so either use lower or UPPER case name. Also the password insterted during the ebuild /var/db/pkg/dev-db/mysql-4.1.14/mysql-4.1.14.ebuild config phase must avoid "'" charachters and is not checked at all. Just to be sure avoid [_%'] charachters (more to add?) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list