On 11/5/05, David Corbin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I recently did an "emerge -uavD world" like I ususally do, and it failed
> trying to upgrade mysql from 4.0 to 4.1.  Well, I'd really like to need to
> keep 4.0 around.  Is there some way to say, don't upgrade mysql when I
> "emerge -uavD world"?
>
> Even better, is there a way to have both versions of mysql installed?
>
> Naturally, I want to do this with portage (I know I could figure out how to do
> all this without portage.)

echo ">=dev-db/mysql-4.1" >> /etc/portage/package.mask

That'll do it.

HTH.

-- Joe

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