On Sun, Jun 1, 2008 at 10:43 PM, Philippe Makowski
<makowski@...> wrote:

>
> May, 20th in the opensuse packaging mailing list, Michal Marek posted the following :
>
> We have a firebird (the opensource SQL database) package in the server:database
> buildservice project
> (https://build.opensuse.org/package/show?package=firebird&project=server%3Adatabase).
> Unfortunately, this package isn't maintained since some time, which is a pity, because the
> server:database repository is offered as a community repository in YaST and is advertised
> as the "Latest updates for database software including Firebird and MySQL".
>
> Since I helped Mandriva to do their packages for Firebird, I jumped and with Michal, we
> made things happen
> Users of Opensuse 10.0,10.1,10.3 and future 11.0 but also SLE 10 can now just use the
> server:database repository and get Firebird 2.0.4
> As soon as the Firebird Project will publish Firebird 2.1.1, packages will be there too.

This is great news we should check what needs to be done so
firebird2.1 to be included in the list of
top most popular distributions
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_distribution#Popular_distributions
I think here is the list of what is covered
Debian [DONE] by Damyan Ivanov http://www.firebirdnews.org/?p=1715
Ubuntu [DONE] in the next release Intrepid Ibex 8.10 imported from
debian http://www.firebirdnews.org/?p=1718
Fedora [Working] One friend of mine will upload in the main
http://www.firebirdnews.org/?p=1649
Gentoo [Done] http://www.gentoo-portage.com/dev-db/firebird
Knoppix [Debian based] it should work by debian package or official
tar.gz installer
Linspire [Debian based] it should work by debian package or official
tar.gz installer
Mandriva [Will be DONE] by Philippe Makowski
OpenSuse [Will be DONE] by Philippe Makowski
PCLinuxOS [Mandriva based] it should work by Mandriva package or
tar.gz/rpm installer
Red Hat Enterprise Linux [Fedora Based] it should work by Fedora
package or official tar.gz/rpm installer
Centos [Fedora Based] it should work by Fedora package or official
tar.gz/rpm installer
Slackware [DONE] http://www.linuxpackages.net/pkg_details.php?id=12350
or official tar.gz installer

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