mysql 4 upgrade

[Mike McGrath]

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> [mailto:fedora-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Raymond Norton
> Sent: Thursday, October 06, 2005 11:02 AM
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> Subject: mysql 4 upgrade
> 
> On a core 3 box can a person use rpm -Uvh mysql.4..... to upgrade from
> 3.23 to 4.1? I removed all 3.23 rpms and installed 4.0 on 
> another box, but had a string of errors when attempting to 
> start apache, and finally had to start over.
> 

You can use the binary, often times its an issue of the client not
supporting the new password style in MySQL4.1.  You can try to change
the password on the mysql server with:

SET PASSWORD FOR 'user'@'hostname' = OLD_PASSWORD('somepass');

This is how I did the workaround for a while.  however if you client
uses some features that require MySQL4.x you can always build one for
yourself (or download and use the binary from MySQL)

	-Mike