From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LbQro-0001b4-LH for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 23 Feb 2009 02:48:24 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 7DD73E0241; Mon, 23 Feb 2009 02:48:23 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5EBC4E0241 for ; Mon, 23 Feb 2009 02:48:23 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.isohunt.com (b01.ext.isohunt.com [208.71.112.51]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ADFEDB56FF for ; Mon, 23 Feb 2009 02:48:22 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 614 invoked from network); 23 Feb 2009 02:48:22 -0000 Received: from tsi-static.orbis-terrarum.net (HELO curie.orbis-terrarum.net) (76.10.188.108) (smtp-auth username robbat2@isohunt.com, mechanism login) by mail.isohunt.com (qpsmtpd/0.33-dev on beta01) with (AES256-SHA encrypted) ESMTPSA; Mon, 23 Feb 2009 02:48:22 +0000 Received: (qmail 20655 invoked by uid 10000); 22 Feb 2009 17:25:56 -0800 Date: Sun, 22 Feb 2009 17:25:56 -0800 From: "Robin H. Johnson" To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] mysql slots Message-ID: <20090223012556.GH20371@curie-int.orbis-terrarum.net> References: <81bfc67a0902221842v6cab3299p810ecaa787a81a39@mail.gmail.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="83Y2sXKo4f/n2njO" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <81bfc67a0902221842v6cab3299p810ecaa787a81a39@mail.gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-09) X-Archives-Salt: b1d8386d-94b6-4bec-9a42-68f0b260ac48 X-Archives-Hash: d53afacafba89625c7776125629034f9 --83Y2sXKo4f/n2njO Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 09:42:00PM -0500, Caleb Cushing wrote: > is there anything preventing mysql* ebuilds from being slotted? there' > be a mysql 3, 4, 4.1, 5, 5.1, 6.0 slots Large degrees of headache. The MySQL team tried it years ago, you'll find some some mentions of mysql-slotted in the history of our eclasses, and the mysql patchsets. Was ultimately dropped for the degree of maintenance headache involved - which included modifying lots of programs to look for the MySQL libraries differently, and bugs triggered when shared libraries were linked against different versions and then used together. There's not much actual need to use a slotted MySQL anyway. Building a newer client (Say from 5.1) works against older servers quite fine. --=20 Robin Hugh Johnson Gentoo Linux Developer & Infra Guy E-Mail : robbat2@gentoo.org GnuPG FP : 11AC BA4F 4778 E3F6 E4ED F38E B27B 944E 3488 4E85 --83Y2sXKo4f/n2njO Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.10 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Robbat2 @ Orbis-Terrarum Networks - The text below is a digital signature. If it doesn't make any sense to you, ignore it. iEYEARECAAYFAkmh+yQACgkQPpIsIjIzwizGogCg1MhZxWW0FkohTwrjocTJHtb/ 0cUAoLA7UcuREpPE5sFEM84b3o2snned =FLze -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --83Y2sXKo4f/n2njO--