http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=62582#c53 "MySQL 4.1.7 ebuild"
an ebuild that can install slotted version of mysql, it should work on mysql 4.0 - 4.1 - 5.0
The idea is to leave the people free to choose mysql 4.0 or 4.1 and continue to build all their usual packages (there are incompatibilities between the two versions that break a lot of builds).
Trying to keep all toghether, there is still one my.cnf file and one /etc/init.d/mysql script (plus simlink, like net.eth*)
Doing this I've also tryed to read some of the gentoo guidelines for developers, so hope that not to many changes are needed.
The only drawback I can see is having a lot of mysql*-X.Y and symlink files instead of mysql* but it seem reasonable o me.
After a couple of days no one answered nor to say bad stuff so I'm going to make some questions:
May be of interest all this stuff? if not why?
I've posted in a un-polite way, if so please say me I will try to not do it again.
If is of some interest, is something I can do? about the code or not
Best regards Francesco Riosa
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