Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: mysql-5.5 upgrade and mysql-5.1 mask news item

[Maxim Koltsov <maksbotan@gentoo.org>]

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2014-08-14 23:58 GMT+04:00 Brian Evans <grknight@gentoo.org>:

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> Title: MySQL 5.5 upgrade procedures
> Author: Brian Evans <grknight@gentoo.org>
> Content-Type: text/plain
> Posted: 2014-08-14
> Revision: 1
> News-Item-Format: 1.0
> Display-If-Installed: <dev-db/mysql-5.5
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> MySQL 5.5 is now stable across all arches. The upgrade process
> will be require you to rebuild everything linked to
> libmysqlclient.so.16 and libmysqlclient_r.so.16.
>
> This may be done for you by portage with 'emerge @preserved-rebuild'.
>
> A small number of libraries may not be automatically rebuilt against
> the new MySQL libraries using preserved-rebuild.  If you have
> difficulties with packages not finding the new libraries, install
> app-portage/gentoolkit and run:
> # revdep-rebuild --library libmysqlclient.so.16
> # revdep-rebuild --library libmysqlclient_r.so.16
>
>
Random question: why isn't it covered by subslots?


> The official upgrade documentation is available here:
> http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.5/en/upgrading.html
>
> Please be sure to review the upgrade document for any possible actions
> necessary before and after the upgrade. This includes running
> mysql_upgrade after the upgrade completion.
>
> Due to security flaws, MySQL 5.1 will be hard masked in 30 days after
> this news item is posted.  It will remain in masked the tree for
> 3 months before removal.
>

I guess you meant 'remain masked in the tree' or 'remain in the tree
masked'.

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