On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 11:51:59PM +0200, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > On 02/15/2010 11:21 PM, Robin H. Johnson wrote: > >This is my last blocker for getting MySQL 5.1 series into ~arch status. > > > >==== > >itle: MySQL 5.1 unmasking > >Author: "Robin H. Johnson"<[email protected]> > >Content-Type: text/plain > >Posted: 2010-02-15 > >Revision: 1 > >News-Item-Format: 1.0 > >Display-If-Installed:<dev-db/mysql-5.1 > > > >The 5.1 series of MySQL is going to be unmasked at the same time as the > >release > >of this news item. When upgrading from an older major version, you will be > >required to rebuild everything linked to the libmysqlclient.so.15. > >==== > I assume "older major version" means 4.x versions and older, not 5.0, right? The following transitions required rebuilds: 3.23 -> 4.0 4.0 -> 4.1 4.1 -> 5.0 5.0 -> 5.1
5.1 -> 5.[45] don't require anything at present, but 5.x -> 6.0 may. Major version in the context of upstream MySQL is the first TWO digits. -- Robin Hugh Johnson Gentoo Linux: Developer, Trustee & Infrastructure Lead E-Mail : [email protected] GnuPG FP : 11AC BA4F 4778 E3F6 E4ED F38E B27B 944E 3488 4E85
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