Re: To whoever will take over mysql (... and to everybody else thinking about playing games with version numbers)

2007-05-05 Thread Brian May
> "sean" == sean finney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: sean> um, shouldn't the fact that an upgrade of mysql-server-4.1 sean> started installing a package named "mysql-server-5.0" have sean> been a good hint? Not in the general case, where it might mean that both versions are getting

Re: To whoever will take over mysql (... and to everybody else thinking about playing games with version numbers)

2007-05-04 Thread Adrian von Bidder
On Friday 04 May 2007 08:45, sean finney wrote: > hi, > > On Fri, 2007-05-04 at 07:52 +0200, Adrian von Bidder wrote: > > An unfortunate string of events lead me to upgrade a server from sarge > > to etch, using the mysql-server-4.1 package and stupidly assuming that > > a package with the package

Re: To whoever will take over mysql (... and to everybody else thinking about playing games with version numbers)

2007-05-03 Thread sean finney
hi, On Fri, 2007-05-04 at 07:52 +0200, Adrian von Bidder wrote: > An unfortunate string of events lead me to upgrade a server from sarge to > etch, using the mysql-server-4.1 package and stupidly assuming that a > package with the package name "mysql-server-4.1" would contain a MySQL > server v

To whoever will take over mysql (... and to everybody else thinking about playing games with version numbers)

2007-05-03 Thread Adrian von Bidder
Please DO NOT DO THIS AGAIN: +++ $ apt-cache policy mysql-server-4.1 mysql-server-4.1: Installed: (none) Candidate: 5.0.32-7etch1 Version table: 5.0.38-3 0 600 http://syydelaervli unstable/main Packages 5.0.38-1 0 700 http://syydelaervli lenny/main Packages 5.0