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diff --git a/metadata/news/2010-02-21-mysql-upgrade/2010-02-21-mysql-upgrade.en.txt b/metadata/news/2010-02-21-mysql-upgrade/2010-02-21-mysql-upgrade.en.txt new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..493bab44e468 --- /dev/null +++ b/metadata/news/2010-02-21-mysql-upgrade/2010-02-21-mysql-upgrade.en.txt @@ -0,0 +1,25 @@ +Title: MySQL 5.1 unmasking and upgrade procedures +Author: Robin H. Johnson <robbat2@gentoo.org> +Content-Type: text/plain +Posted: 2010-02-21 +Revision: 5 +News-Item-Format: 1.0 +Display-If-Installed: <dev-db/mysql-5.1 + +The 5.1 series of MySQL is going to be unmasked at the same time as the release +of this news item. When upgrading from an older major version (including 5.0), +you will be required to rebuild everything linked to the libmysqlclient.so.15 +and libmysqlclient_r.so.15. + +You can do this by installing app-portage/gentoolkit and running: +# revdep-rebuild --library libmysqlclient.so.15 +# revdep-rebuild --library libmysqlclient_r.so.15 + +If you use the Portage 2.2 series, you may also use: +# emerge @preserved-rebuild + +The official upgrade documentation is available here: +http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/upgrading.html + +Note that existing databases may need converting as well, again including those +upgrading from 5.0 to 5.1. Details are in the update documentation. |