[Asterisk-bsd] ok need input again

[Richard Neese]

On Sunday 02 September 2007 03:44:16 pm Frank Griffith wrote:
> I have my AMD64 machine running FreeBSD-6.2-RELEASE-amd64 and it's pretty
> settled. I would like to try and install the package but want to ask the
> following questions first:
>
> 1. The install.sh kept whacking out on me when it gets to the cd
> asterisk-configs command. Even after you made reference to mitigating this,
> it still happened on the very next attempt I tried with the new file.
>
I am looking into this today to find out why it only happens on amd64. I 
should have it fixed soon.


> 2. Will zaptel really work on AMD64. The Makefile still has the code block
> which I referenced that will not install zaptel on anything but i386
> architecture machines.
>
zaptel in ports works on amd64 Killfill aka pneumman is running it fine.

> 3. Asterisk is a wonderful port but it has proved impossible to upgrade, at
> least my experience with it has been impossible to upgrade when the newer
> versions come out. The only way I've been able to upgrade it from the ports
> is to blast away the drive and do a fresh install of the os. Unless there
> is someway to upgrade it that I'm not aware of this is the only thing I
> found that works.
>
if you use portupgrade pkgs update fine. you can tell it to use pkgs and not 
grab src. so when I put up the pkgs site you can pull the new pkgs .

> We all appreciate your efforts on this. I'm looking forward to getting a
> look at thirdlane gui.
>
Thanks alot. 


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