At 09:43 AM 20/07/2005 +0000, you wrote:

>So, you have a tradeoff. You can either have a short set-up time and get the
>ball rolling with firebird (and possibly regretting going into rpm-hell
>later), or go slower, learning bits and pieces about other things along the
>way, and getting to know your system really well.

All valid points; but, be aware that it isn't possible to use rpm -u to
upgrade to a later sub-release of Firebird. All releases and sub-releases
have gzipped versions which (provided the major release codes are the same)
can be used to overwrite the original rpm installation.

./heLen