Snippet from my emerge -u mysql, going from 4.0 to 4.1: * MySQL DATADIR is /var/lib/mysql * Previous datadir found, it's YOUR job to change * ownership and have care of it * Sorry, plain up/downgrade between different version of MySQL is (still) * un-supported. * Some gentoo documentation on how to do it: * http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/mysql-upgrading.xml * Also on the MySQL website: * http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/upgrading-from-4-0.html * * You can also choose to preview some new MySQL 4.1 behaviour * adding a section "[mysqld-4.0]" followed by the word "new" * into /etc/mysql/my.cnf (you need a recent MySQL version) * * MySQL-dev-db/mysql-4.0 found, up/downgrade to "dev-db/mysql-4.1" is unsupported * export MYSQL_STRAIGHT_UPGRADE=1 to force This URL: http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/upgrading-from-4-0.html is no longer valid, as MySQL AB have reorganized their site to accomodate the new MySQL 5.0. Updated URL: http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/4.1/en/upgrading-from-4-0.html
Should habe been more specific - here's the update info: [ebuild U ] dev-db/mysql-4.1.14 [4.0.25-r2]
fixed thanks
