Hi! I did an emerge of mysql, but it doesn't run right "out of the box" as it were. The my.cnf config file isn't installed into /etc/mysql, and the copy that I found in the portage dir has some flaws. In particular, it references multiple mysql components which were installed as mysql-500 rather than plain "mysql". The following fixes help (in each case, I've changed mysql to mysql-500): err-log = /var/log/mysql-500/mysql.err log = /var/log/mysql-500/mysql.log datadir = /var/lib/mysql-500 language = /usr/share/mysql-500/english I also ran around and did some symbolic links to tie things together, just in case.
http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/mysql-upgrade-slotted.xml
I'm not trying to be contrary -- but this is a new install, not an upgrade -- I installed mysql via emerge yesterday, and then installed something that relies on mysql today (rt). So it's not really an upgrade. I suppose this could be the reason rt is masked ~x86, i.e. that it doesn't deal with mysql properly. If that's the case, perhaps this is an easily-resolved issue with the rt emerge?
Uhm, what are you describing is not a bug. That's what eselect-mysql is for, upgrade or not. It creates all the needed symlinks for you. And there's nothing wrong with the config file.
