On Wed, 2005-01-12 at 03:29 +0100, Thomas de Grenier de Latour wrote:
> On Wed, 12 Jan 2005 02:32:34 +0100
> Francesco Riosa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > my bad explaining, /etc/init.d/mysql is the *same* (md5 sums)
> > for all mysql versions
>
> That's still not good imho: some people use
> CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK=/etc/init.d (I do for instance). In such a
> case, uninstalling one of the slotted mysql package may remove the
> initscript (if it is the latest emerged one that is removed,
> because mtime will also match).
> I think a better approach would be to have one real file
> initscript per SLOT (/etc/init.d/mysql-${SLOT}), plus an
> /etc/init.d/mysql symlink pointing to the one with the greatest
> version for lazy people and backward compatibility. You can
> probably use the alternatives.eclass to manage this symlink btw.I was thinking a better idea would be a mysql-launcher ebuild which installs only this init script. All the mysql versions could depend on it and symlink to the init script created by it. -- Chris Gianelloni Release Engineering - Operational/QA Manager Games - Developer Gentoo Linux
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