[gentoo-user] Re: How to alter ./configure flags from emerge

[Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com>]

Holly Bostick <motub@planet.nl> writes:


[...] good info

> Of course, you might want to upgrade to -r2, since clearly some things
> didn't work in -r1 (in ebuild terms)
>
> You might also want to stick with stable until things settle down a bit.
>
> Just my 2 Eurocents, as you see, I'm not a MySQL user.

Holly,
Thanks for the usual helpful effort.  Maybe you can tell me how one
controlls what ebuild is used.  For example:

ls /usr/portage/dev-db/mysql
ChangeLog                mysql-4.0.25-r2.ebuild   mysql-5.0.15.ebuild
Manifest                 mysql-4.0.26.ebuild      mysql-5.0.16-r1.ebuild
files                    mysql-4.1.14.ebuild      mysql-5.0.16-r30.ebuild
metadata.xml             mysql-4.1.15-r30.ebuild
mysql-3.23.58-r1.ebuild  mysql-4.1.15.ebuild

I was able to to at least start mysql-5.0.15.ebuild, how would I
select it out of the others thru emerge?

I foolishly ran the last -u world with ACCEPT_KEYWORDS=~x86 and have
since set that globally.  So I'm now bleeding edge and it appears that
it would take some doing to undo that at this point so thought I'd go
with it for a while and see if I could get ontop of it.

I know about using the actual path and that is how I'm installing it
as I write but one always gets those troublesome messages about
installing by path being broken....




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