I don't know whether anyone's already done this but since it wasn't in the portage tree and I wanted to learn a bit about ebuilds and have a go at MySQL 4 I thought I'd give it a go. It's almost exactly the same as the 3.23.50 ebuild except I've redone all the diff files and changed the rc6 script so that it calls mysqld_safe rather than safe_mysqld. I've tested it on two Gentoo machines and it appears to work without problems. Alex
Created attachment 1744 [details] ebuild of mysql 4.0.1
The attachment is a tar.gz file, as bugzilla doesn't seem to show the original file name...
seems to work here.... Committed, but currently masked due to it's alpha state.