[Asterisk-Dev] moving sounds out of asterisk repository

[Tzafrir Cohen]

On Thu, Jan 12, 2006 at 09:32:41PM -0600, Kevin P. Fleming wrote:
> Russell Bryant wrote:
> 
> >2) Modify the Asterisk Makefile to check for the existence of the sounds
> >directory.
> 
> I don't see a reason to do it this way. The sounds are very rarely 
> changed, 

Is there any reason, thus, that the version of asterisk-sounds is
automatically bumped on each release of Asterisk? Could it be bumped
only when there is actually a releasble change? If not: could the
tarball include some sort of changelog?

>  so my thinking has been this:
> 
> 1) Create a separate version number for the 'base' sounds. Export the 
> sounds into a tarball named with that version number and put it on 
> ftp.digium.com.
> 
> 2) Modify the 'make install' target in the Asterisk makefile to check 
> the currently-installed-version tag in /var/lib/asterisk/sounds.
> 
> 3) If the installed version is older than the version embedded in the 
> Makefile, then download that version's tarball, unpack it and install it.

Note that this breaks badly if you don't have internet connection. Or
install a package to an empty build-root, and are thus forced again and
again to download a bunch of files. Thus this should be made very easy
to remove without too big a patch to the makefile.

> 
> 4) For tarballs of Asterisk, the needed version of the sounds will be 
> included into the tarball when it gets made.

So will it be in asterisk-sounds or in asterisk? Or both? The base/
directory can be a source of problems if people start to use it
literally (if it is in the asterisk-sounds tarball).

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