From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NhKeu-0001kR-VR for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 16 Feb 2010 10:28:01 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A7CEAE0893; Tue, 16 Feb 2010 10:27:54 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0961CE0795 for ; Tue, 16 Feb 2010 10:27:40 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A48251B401F for ; Tue, 16 Feb 2010 10:27:39 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at gentoo.org X-Spam-Score: -3.066 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-3.066 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=-0.467, BAYES_00=-2.599] Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id EeNCEfjUtcmo for ; Tue, 16 Feb 2010 10:27:33 +0000 (UTC) Received: from lo.gmane.org (lo.gmane.org [80.91.229.12]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1574B6792E for ; Tue, 16 Feb 2010 10:27:31 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NhKeH-0005YN-0L for gentoo-dev@gentoo.org; Tue, 16 Feb 2010 11:27:21 +0100 Received: from athedsl-379599.home.otenet.gr ([79.131.34.205]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 16 Feb 2010 11:27:20 +0100 Received: from realnc by athedsl-379599.home.otenet.gr with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 16 Feb 2010 11:27:20 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org From: Nikos Chantziaras Subject: [gentoo-dev] Re: News item: MySQL 5.1 bump Date: Tue, 16 Feb 2010 12:27:11 +0200 Organization: Lucas Barks Message-ID: References: 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: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: athedsl-379599.home.otenet.gr User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.7) Gecko/20100206 Thunderbird/3.0.1 In-Reply-To: Sender: news X-Archives-Salt: 0d6bebe0-073d-41d1-b596-cf876d236cdb X-Archives-Hash: 34791b1f7b444f17d8caf864434b599a On 02/16/2010 12:12 AM, Robin H. Johnson wrote: > On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 11:51:59PM +0200, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: >> On 02/15/2010 11:21 PM, Robin H. Johnson wrote: >>> This is my last blocker for getting MySQL 5.1 series into ~arch status. >>> >>> ==== >>> itle: MySQL 5.1 unmasking >>> Author: "Robin H. Johnson" >>> Content-Type: text/plain >>> Posted: 2010-02-15 >>> Revision: 1 >>> News-Item-Format: 1.0 >>> Display-If-Installed:>> >>> The 5.1 series of MySQL is going to be unmasked at the same time as the release >>> of this news item. When upgrading from an older major version, you will be >>> required to rebuild everything linked to the libmysqlclient.so.15. >>> ==== >> I assume "older major version" means 4.x versions and older, not 5.0, right? > The following transitions required rebuilds: > 3.23 -> 4.0 > 4.0 -> 4.1 > 4.1 -> 5.0 > 5.0 -> 5.1 > > 5.1 -> 5.[45] don't require anything at present, but 5.x -> 6.0 may. > > Major version in the context of upstream MySQL is the first TWO digits. This should be mentioned in the news item since what MySQL thinks are "major" version numbers disagrees with the common sense of: Major.minor.patch Most people will interpret "older major version" as being MySQL 4.x and older.