[Asterisk-bsd] Asterisk status on FreeBSD 5.3?

[Jan Stocker]

> 6.  FreeBSD port.  The FreeBSD port is based on 1.0.3 (still). 
> Asterisk 1.0.5 was relatively easy to build, but I notice that the
> port has a lot of patches.  Does anyone (besides Maxim, who apparently
> wrote them) know what the patches are for?  There are all sorts of
> things patched, including a rather large patch to chan_sip.c, which
> appears to be a bug fix.  I can't figure out what the patch to rtp.c
> is for.  I wonder if it is better to continue to use the port, since
> it might be "better" in some way.

I have made an update for that port to 1.0.5 using the available patches
but I don't had a deeper look into them. 
Would anyone try that port update (available at www.shellbang.org)?

I also need to patch OpenH323 to compile with ffmpeg, also put that
patch on my site.

Jan