Re: [gentoo-user] package removed from portage question

2006-09-09 Thread Mark Knecht
On 9/8/06, Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 8 Sep 2006 13:36:57 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: Why can't the ebuild be left on my machine in some location so that the machine remains unaltered until I decide it's worth dealing with? The ebuild is on your machine, in

[gentoo-user] package removed from portage question

2006-09-08 Thread Mark Knecht
Hi, Portage wants to downgrade MySQL on my PC. This appears to be due to a revision being removed from portage: lightning ~ # emerge -pvDuN world These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating world dependencies... done! SNIP [ebuild UD] dev-db/mysql-4.0.27 [4.1.20]

Re: [gentoo-user] package removed from portage question

2006-09-08 Thread kashani
Mark Knecht wrote: lightning ~ # eix -I mysql * dev-db/mysql Available versions: !3.23.58-r1 4.0.25-r2 4.0.27 [M]4.1.21 [M]5.0.24-r1 [M]5.1.7_beta Installed: 4.1.20 Homepage:http://www.mysql.com/ Description: A fast, multi-threaded, multi-user SQL

Re: [gentoo-user] package removed from portage question

2006-09-08 Thread Richard Fish
On 9/8/06, Mark Knecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I sort of have a problem with this. Maybe the info is in the change logs? Yes, you really should read the ChangeLog if you want anwers to such questions. Looks like 4.1.21 was stabilized to solve a security bug [1] [2]. up with 4.1.20 I think

Re: [gentoo-user] package removed from portage question

2006-09-08 Thread Mark Knecht
On 9/8/06, Richard Fish [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 9/8/06, Mark Knecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I sort of have a problem with this. Maybe the info is in the change logs? Yes, you really should read the ChangeLog if you want anwers to such questions. Looks like 4.1.21 was stabilized to

Re: [gentoo-user] package removed from portage question

2006-09-08 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 8 Sep 2006 13:36:57 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: Why can't the ebuild be left on my machine in some location so that the machine remains unaltered until I decide it's worth dealing with? The ebuild is on your machine, in /var/db/pkg/category/package-version/ Copy it to your overlay and