Re: [gentoo-user] Portage + Package Version

[Teresa and Dale <teendale@vista-express.com>]

Leandro Melo de Sales wrote:

> Ok. The package in question is mysql. I what to install version 3, but
> I masked the oldest 4.0 and emerge search returns mysql version 5. How
> can I install version 3?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Leandro
>
> 2006/5/22, Gian Domeni Calgeer <gidoca@gmx.ch>:
>
>> Am Montag 22 Mai 2006 20.53 schrieb Leandro Melo de Sales:
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> >   I want to install an previous version of a package. I need to mask
>> > it at /etc/portage/package.mask, but how can I know the available
>> > gentoo packages in order to mask the right one?
>> >
>> > Thanks
>> > Leandro
>>
>> The simplest method is to have a look at http://packages.gentoo.org/ .
>>
>> Gian
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>>
>
This may help:

> root@smoker / # etcat -v mysql
> [ Results for search key           : mysql ]
> [ Candidate applications found : 10 ]
>
>  Only printing found installed programs.
>
> *  dev-db/mysql :
>         [   ] 3.23.58-r1 (0)
>         [   ] 4.0.25-r2 (0)
>         [M~ ] 4.0.26-r1 (0)
>         [   ] 4.0.27 (0)
>         [   ] 4.1.14-r1 (0)
>         [M~ ] 4.1.18-r61 (0)
>         [   ] 4.1.19 (0)
>         [M~ ] 5.0.19-r1 (0)
>         [M~ ] 5.0.21 (0)
>         [M  ] 5.1.7_beta (0)
> root@smoker / #       


That command is obsolete.  Man equery for the replacement, the one I
can't figure out how to use.  o_O  It still works for me though.

Dale
:-)

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