https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=168143
--- Comment #2 from Mike Kaganski <[email protected]> --- (In reply to Robert Großkopf from comment #1) > Also external connection to a Firebird file should work independent from > installed Firebird server. But it won't - see bug 159155 Totally unrelated - and NOTABUG (as I wrote there, the database files, DY DESIGN if FB, are system-dependent, so unportable; only backup format is portable - which we therefore are using in our ODBs). The problem here is, that though backup format is portable in a sense that it can be moved to another system and open using the same or newer version of FB, it is versioned - so a newer version of FB will write it back in the format, that can't be read by the original version; so the fact that we depend on the system FB is problematic. However: as far as I remember, FB does *not* provide an "embedded" solution for Linux *at all* (maybe that changed in v4 or v5?). So the "should" could be just wishful thinking. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug.
