I've been a Gentoo user for a while now (this is based on a 2004.1 box, but I've been syncing and upgrading every week or two), and I'm a little confused about a recent change.
I run mysql 4.0.22-r2 on a production machine on a x86 (i686-pc-linux-gnu); after the last sync of the portage tree, the system now recommends a DOWNGRADE to 3.23.58-r1.
# emerge --pretend --update world
These are the packages that I would merge, in order:
Calculating world dependencies ...done! [ebuild UD] dev-db/mysql-3.23.58-r1 [4.0.22-r2] [ebuild UD] net-www/mod_auth_mysql-1.11 [20030510-r2]
While I understand how to avoid applying these changes, I'm trying to understand why this change is now being recommended. I'm also confused, as http://packages.gentoo.org/search/?sstring=mod_auth_mysql doesn't show mod_auth_mysql as being stable, and the latest stable for mysql is 4.0.22-r2 on x86 architectures.
Why these downgrade recommendations?
Probably a screwup with the Apache herd. They have been reorganizing things, getting rid of mod_contrib, and getting other modules up to date.
The actual current version on mod_auth_mysql is 2.8 which I'm using in production. The 1.1 stuff which is really old and the 2003 stuff which is what most people are using. 2.8 should work fine with Mysql 4 or 3 and also with Apache 1 and 2. On my system it wants to upgrade Apache to 2.0 as well.
I'd probably keep an eye on any APache stuff for the next couple of weeks as apparently things aren't going to go a smooth as was planned.
kashani
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