Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: News item: MySQL 5.1 bump

["Robin H. Johnson" <robbat2@gentoo.org>]

[-- Attachment #1: Type: text/plain, Size: 1179 bytes --]

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"<robbat2@gentoo.rog>
> >Content-Type: text/plain
> >Posted: 2010-02-15
> >Revision: 1
> >News-Item-Format: 1.0
> >Display-If-Installed:<dev-db/mysql-5.1
> >
> >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.

-- 
Robin Hugh Johnson
Gentoo Linux: Developer, Trustee & Infrastructure Lead
E-Mail     : robbat2@gentoo.org
GnuPG FP   : 11AC BA4F 4778 E3F6 E4ED  F38E B27B 944E 3488 4E85

[-- Attachment #2: Type: application/pgp-signature, Size: 330 bytes --]