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Differences between upstream and the Fedora package
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* All files are installed according to the FHS. Relatively complete
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environment as provided by upstream may be found in %{fbroot}
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* Firebird utilities gbak,gsec,gfix,and nbackup have a symlink in /usr/bin
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In /usr/bin you have also isql-fb symlinked to Firebird isql.
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We can't name it isql to avoid conflict with isql from UNIX-ODBC
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In /usr/bin you have also gstat-fb symlinked to Firebird gstat.
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We can't name it gstat to avoid conflict with gstat from Ganglia-gmond
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* According to Fedora packaging rules, firebird service is not started
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automatically. You need to start it, as root :
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for SuperServer :
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service firebird start
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for Classic :
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chkconfig firebird on
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If you wanted to have firebird Superserver started at each boot, as root :
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chkconfig --level 345 firebird on
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* Fedora packages do not use, nor contain the pre-supplied sources for
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libicu. Fedora packages are used instead.
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* POSSIBLE INCOMPATIBILITY
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In incides on text-based columns (CHAR/VARCHAR), Firebird uses ICU to get
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binary-comparable sequences (collations). These collations may be different
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in different ICU versions.
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In Firebird 2.1 upstream always uses the bundled ICU library. Firebird packages
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use the Firebird-packaged libicu*. Unfortunately, this may lead to
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incompatibilities in the binary index representation (on disk) between
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databases created by Fedora-packaged Firebird, and upstream.
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This can also lead to incompatibilities when the Firebird packages are
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re-built using different version of the system-wide ICU library
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One way to fix this is to backup and restore all databases created with ICU
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version different from the one currently installed on the system. Another is
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to re-generate all indices that contain a text-based columns.
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