my apologies for the mess with this release of MySQL 5.0.16 and for the one will come with the dev-db/mysql-4.1.15-r1 ebuild
Here is the relevant list of bugs opened (and closed) as a consequence of the new ebuild. [Bug 113451] mysql-4.1.15 re-keyworded as -* with no note in changelog as to why [Bug 113440] typo in mysql-5.0.16-r2 init script [Bug 113356] /etc/init.d/mysql script fails to start server in mysql-5.0.16 [Bug 113352] mysql-5.0.16-r1 does not create /usr/lib{64}/libmysqlclient.so.15 symlink [Bug 113334] mysql MD5 mysql-extras-20050920.tar.bz2 VERIFY FAILED! (old ebuild has correct value) If you installed 5.0.16, the 1st and don't want to re-emerge it, follow these steps: (may need to adjust the path accordingly with ARCH and personal settings) # emerge --sync # cp /usr/portage/dev-db/mysql/files/mysql-slot.rc6 /etc/init.d/mysql # chmod +x /etc/init.d/mysql # cd /usr/lib{64} # for i in libmysqlclient.so libmysqlclient_r.so ; do \ for j in "" .15 .15.0 .15.0.0 ; do \ echo ln -s /usr/lib/${i}.15.0.0 ${i}${j} \ ; done \ ; done # chown -R mysql:mysql /var/run/mysqld/ Regards, Francesco R. -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list