Re: Newbie admin - help with mysql

>
> Maurice E Johnson wrote:
> >       But wouldn't an attempt to install an app dependent on mysql
> >     potentially succeed eroniously? What I'm trying to see - and
> >     education is always a good thing - is that in order to truely block
> >     mysql, you would need something a bit more complex than an entree in
> >     /etc/portage/package.provided.
> >
> >     Something in addition? like:
> >
> >     equery --nocolor hasuse mysql|awk '{print ">="$1}' >
> >     </etc/portage/package.provided|/etc/portage/package.mask>
> >
> >     to avoid the consequences of basically saying that it's there when
> >     it isn't?
> >
> >     I have read the man page, but it doesn't seem to address the
> >     consequenses down the road for this condition.
>
> I don't think it necessarily should.  By putting something in
> packages.provided you're telling portage that you've taken care of that
> package manually, so it can assume that the dependency has been
> fulfilled.  If at some point down the road your system runs into
> compile or dependency problems you know where to look.
>
> Just to clarify the situation though - you're installing mysql manually,
> and trying to emerge mytop or something else that generally needs mysql
> as a dependency, and you just want it to use your custom built one
> rather than ever emerging portage's stock mysql, correct?
>
> Another option, although probably one that requires more work, would be
> to make an ebuild for your custom built mysql, include it in the local
> overlay and as an added precaution so that you know when a new version
> is out mask all higher versions.  Then "emerge <whatever it is that
> needs mysql>" should work just as if it were using the stock mysql.
> Actually you could probably do the second part in conjunction with
> packages.provided rather than creating an ebuild.
>
> The downside is that whenever your dependent package's requirements
> changed you would most likely get errors about mysql being masked, and
> you'd have to do some conf tweaking again.  The upside is that you'd be
> notified and it wouldn't be emerging mysql.
>
> >
> >
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> >
> > Subject:
> > Re: [gentoo-admin] Newbie admin - help with mysql
> > From:
> > Brian Kroth <bpkroth@...>
> > Date:
> > Thu, 21 Sep 2006 15:15:45 -0500
> > To:
> > gentoo-admin@...
> >
> > To:
> > gentoo-admin@...
> >
> >
> > Joseph Drake wrote:
> >> I think this will result in failed dependencies.
> >>
> >> Johnson, Maurice E CTR NSWCDL-K74 wrote:
> >>> try
> >>>
> >>> echo "dev-db/mysql" >>/etc/portage/package.mask
> >
> > Exactly, that's why /etc/portage/package.provided was created.  The
> > previous solution was correct.  Namely:
> >
> >  >> You could try something like:
> >  >>
> >  >> echo "dev-db/mysql-4" >> /etc/portage/profile/package.provided
> >
> > "man portage" for more more info.
> >
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> -----Original Message-----
> >>> From: Con Tassios [mailto:ct@...] Sent: Wednesday, September
> >>> 20, 2006 23:20
> >>> To: gentoo-admin@...
> >>> Subject: Re: [gentoo-admin] Newbie admin - help with mysql
> >>>
> >>> On Thu, 21 Sep 2006, Easy-Things Info wrote:
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>> How do I tell gentoo that I don't want - under any circumstances
> >>>>
> >>> -
> >>>> emerge to automatically install mysql?
> >>>> I am using binaries and sources straight from mysql.com.
> >>>>
> >>>> I used -mysql in my USE in /etc/make.conf but it doesn't work
> >>>>
> >>>> If I try to emerge -p world it tells me that it will install
> >>>>
> >>> mysql
> >>>> 4.1.x
> >>>>
> >>>
> >>> You could try something like:
> >>>
> >>> echo "dev-db/mysql-4" >> /etc/portage/profile/package.provided
> >>>
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