On 11/25/16 20:02, Michal Kubecek wrote: > On Fri, Nov 25, 2016 at 06:38:39PM +0200, marius adrian popa wrote: >> Thread is for migration of the already created odb files with 2.5 databases >> inside but also about the forward and backward compatibilty of the backup >> archive >> >> https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/libreoffice/2016-November/075953.html > To make migration easier for openSUSE/SLE users, I created package > compat-firebird25 with modified paths so that it doesn't collide > with standard FB3 packages and can be installed alongside them. It > installs only a minimal set of files needed to access local database > files in embedded mode and back them up to be restored by FB3 gbak. > It also provides a simple script to migrate a database either via > a pipe (gbak25 | gbak30) or using an intermediate file. > > The idea of using a backup file rather than platform and version > dependent database file in LibreOffice sounds like the right solution, > as far as I can say.
As an additional '+' for it I can mention big/little-endian compatibility of transportable gbak. As serious minus - delays when opening OOO document containing database. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Firebird-Devel mailing list, web interface at https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/firebird-devel
