as it turns out, a mysqldump file from mysql 3.2x does not play nice with
mysql 4.x and vice versa, so in order to be able to transfer data between the
development environment and the live one, i have to downgrade my box to 3.x
(i don't have any power over the live machines or i'd upgrade them myself).
but putting the following in "/etc/portage/profiles/package.mask" doesn't
work:
>=dev-db/mysql-4.0.0
however, adding the above to /usr/portage/profiles/package.mask does work, and
so that's the route i'm going to get mysql up and running, but obviously on
the next emerge sync, i'm going to lose this minor change, so i'd like to
know what i missed.
any pointers? the above line is the only contents of package.mask.
ps.
i'm also having similar problems with package.unmask (ie. it doesn't seem to
have any effect). so i'm hoping that solving this problem will help me solve
that one.
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