my friend ask me to post it here, so : " It's serious server and I don't use ~x86 on it! I don't want to downgrade mysql! I don't want to convert phpbbs and others to old mysql, I want to have mysql 4.x in gentoo stable. What happens to mysql that u want to get rid of 4.x branch?! " http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?p=2047228#2047228 Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.installed mysl 4.0.22-r2 2.emerge -upv world 3. Actual Results: emerge wants to downgrade Expected Results: no any downgrade. adam abaddon # emerge info Portage 2.0.51-r15 (gcc34-x86-2004.2, gcc-3.4.3, glibc-2.3.4.20041102-r0, 2.6. 10-ADAM i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.10-ADAM i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) III CPU family 1266MHz Gentoo Base System version 1.4.16 Python: dev-lang/python-2.3.4 [2.3.4 (#1, Nov 10 2004, 00:12:50)] distcc 2.18.3 i686-pc-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632) [disabled] dev-lang/python: 2.3.4 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.59-r6, 2.13 sys-devel/automake: 1.8.5-r2, 1.5, 1.4_p6, 1.6.3, 1.7.9, 1.9.4 sys-devel/binutils: 2.15.92.0.2-r1 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.10-r4 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.8.1-r1, 2.6.8.1-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-march=pentium3 -Os -fomit-frame-pointer -ffast-math -fmove-all-movables -pipe -DNDEBUG -DG_DISABLE_ASSERT -s -fstack-protector" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/share/ config /var/bind /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-march=pentium3 -Os -fomit-frame-pointer -ffast-math -fmove-all- movables -pipe -DNDEBUG -DG_DISABLE_ASSERT -s -fstack-protector" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs ccache distlocks sandbox" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.inode.at/" LANG="pl_PL" LC_ALL="pl_PL" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/usr/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync/rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="apache2 apm avi berkdb bitmap-fonts crypt encode f77 font-server foomaticdb fortran gdbm gif imlib jpeg libg++ libwww mad mikmod mmx motif mpeg mysql ncurses nls nptl oggvorbis opengl oss pam pdflib perl png pthreads python quicktime readline sdlslang spell sse ssl svga tcpd threads truetype truetype- fonts type1-fonts x86 xml xml2 xmms xv zlib" Unset: ASFLAGS, CBUILD, CTARGET, LDFLAGS
You'll either have something installed that depends on mysql-3 or there's a broken entry in /etc/portage/*. This will be a local problem.
Are you sure, you don't have masked it like >=dev-db/mysql-4 in e.g. /etc/portage/package.mask If doing that, I can reproduce the "bug"
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