Author: mariuz
http://wiki.ubuntu.com/Mariuz
Booleans values soon in Firebird 3.x
#phpbb3 guide updated for #Ubuntu Maverick Server
There is a new version of phpbb3 (3.0.8) so I have updated the guide for Ubuntu (Maverick or Lucid) and it will work without issues in Debian too.
#ODBC Driver Project Lives Again with new Version 2.0 Release Candidate 2.
The Open Source Firebird (IBPhoenix) ODBC driver has been updated to Version 2.0 Release Candidate 2.
Alexander Potapchenko wrote on firebird-odbc list:
I resume development of the ODBC driver. The primary goal to finish ODBC
driver 2.0 (with full x64 support and fixed “blocker” level problems) now.
If you are having any problems with the current driver but have not
reported them because the sub-project wasn’t active, then to add them to
the Bag tracker now.
ps: if you don’t know what is the bag tracker 🙂 it’s Firebird Project’s bug tracker.
Orphanage for #OpenSuse Linux packages
If there are any takers for building and maintaining the suse packages please do so , until then Firebird package is orphane
Philippe Makowski wrote:
As you may know, I’m the maintainer of Firebird packages in OpenSuse.
but I’m also doing the same for Fedora (including EPEL), Mandriva and
the future Mageia.OpenSuse is not my preferred distro, for far, and even if they are all
rpm distro, following seriously a distro need some time, and when new
Firebird version is there you need some time to do the job the right
way. And I don’t have enough time for this.
So I will still maintain Mandriva, Mageia, Fedora but no longer OpenSuse
(will it be “open” for a long time I don’t know, and that’s another story)So please OpenSuse and Firebird users, step in, I will help you if need.
ipv6 will be available soon the main firebird tree
Here are some patches and the discussion on firebird-devel list , if you spot any issues/bugs please ask on the list
Firebird embedded – Linux (update)
In this post I explained how to set up an embedded Firebird version for Linux.A few weeks ago I read a post from Olivier Mascia that explained a simpler way: instead of starting the program using a script that sets up a couple of environment variables, just callsetenv() to set those variables in the program.
There are many good articles in the archives about firebird and creating an accounting program with open source tools.
#Freebsd Port requests for Firebird 2.1.x
Posted by: hangover
Created PR with ports for server and client.
server (http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=152402)
client (http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=152403)
Successfully compiles on 7.1, 7.3, 8.0, 8.1 – i386 and amd64.
Hope, it will be added to ports tree..
How to install and set up a Firebird 2.5 server on #Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx (LTS)
Firebird 2.5 for Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid is now added in ppa and can be installed using this guide
Firebird 2.5 rpms are in #Fedora rawhide (Fedora 15), on #EPEL6 beta for #RHEL6 and future #Centos6
Philippe Makowski announced :
Firebird 2.5 rpms are in Fedora rawhide (Fedora 15), on EPEL6 beta for
RHEL6 and future Centos6
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/acls/name/firebird
For Fedora 14 (the actual stable Fedora) I made a private repository here : http://repos.fedorapeople.org/repos/makowski/firebird/