Chris, portmaster was the key. Installed that (yes, read the manpage, and your -o syntax was OK anyway) and MAGIC! -- update went fine.
Matthew and Robert's comments regarding updating taken to heart as well.

THANKS guys, much appreciated.

Glenn.

----- Original Message ----- From: "Chris Rees" <[email protected]>
To: "Glenn McCalley" <[email protected]>
Cc: <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, June 07, 2011 8:37 AM
Subject: Re: MySQL update


On 7 June 2011 12:56, Glenn McCalley <[email protected]> wrote:
Trying to update MySQL from 4.1 to 5.5.
Updating mysql-client first.
Make works great, but make install refuses to install saying 5.5 conflicts
with 4.1, run
pkg_delete for 4.1.
pkg_delete for 4.1 refuses to deinstall as all the php52 packages
(extensions, mysql, mysqli, pdo_mysql etc.) depend on mysql 4.1.

Question: Do I have to deinstall everything, and then put it all back
together, or can I force the mysql 5.5 client and 5.5 server to install?


I'm at work at the moment, so I can't test these, sorry.

Firstly, get portmaster:

# pkg_add -r portmaster

Then read the manpage:

% man portmaster

Try something like:

# portmaster -o databases/mysql55-client mysql-client

# portmaster -o databases/mysql55-server mysql-server

Then, because you haven't read the manpage you'll have to confirm
everything. Read the manpage!

If it doesn't work (because I made a mistake with the -o syntax), read
the manpage and then let us have the output.

Chris
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