[asterisk-dev] CentOS 6 and Ubuntu 12 Testing Support

[Scott Griepentrog]

After testing with CentOS 6.8, I agree that it has become difficult to
continue supporting it.

On Wed, Apr 12, 2017 at 9:27 AM, George Joseph <gjoseph at digium.com> wrote:

>
>
> On Wed, Apr 12, 2017 at 7:22 AM, Scott Griepentrog <
> sgriepentrog at digium.com> wrote:
>
>> I agree that 12.04 is old enough to not worry about supporting.  Because
>> of the widespread use of CentOS 6 as an Asterisk platform, I'd be concerned
>> about abandoning it however.  Which tests (beyond ODBC) are you having
>> trouble with?
>>
>
> Pretty much every rest_api test fails because of Python package issues.
> The last errors are related to txaio and twisted.
> The latest version of twisted to support python 2.6 is 14 which starts  a
> cascade of package interdependencies that can only be resolved by using pip
> to install specific versions of things.  I could probably get it to work
> but is it worth the time and effort to do so?
>
> These are the packages that have to be installed via pip just to get this
> far...
> alembic
> setuptools
> requests
> pyparsing
> urlparse3
> urllib3
> virtualenv
> virtualenv-clone
> virtualenvwrapper
> construct
> pep8
> autobahn
> service-identity
> construct==2.5.1
> Twisted==14
>
> Oh yeah, one of the packages we install from source (I think it's sipp but
> I forget) requires autoconf268 which is available via yum but it's a pain
> to get it to be used.
>
>
>>
>> On Wed, Apr 12, 2017 at 7:45 AM, Joshua Colp <jcolp at digium.com> wrote:
>>
>>> On Tue, Apr 11, 2017, at 03:28 PM, George Joseph wrote:
>>> > Both CentOS 6 and Ubuntu 12 have fallen into the state where we can't
>>> > actually create a new instance of either that can run the Asterisk
>>> > Testsuite.  In order to get it to work I've had to fiddle Python
>>> packages
>>> > both from the distributions' repositories and directly from pip which
>>> > makes
>>> > the Python environment fragile FrankenSnake.  Also, ODBC packages from
>>> > that
>>> > era are unreliable so I've had to download and install both UnixODBC
>>> and
>>> > the postgresql ODBC drivers from source to get a working realtime
>>> setup.
>>> > Finally, the Ubuntu 12 ISO images contain an /etc/apt/sources.list that
>>> > no
>>> > longer works right out of the box.
>>> >
>>> > So what do you folks think the future of testing on CentOS 6 and Ubuntu
>>> > 12
>>> > should be?
>>>
>>> 12.04 is EOL so not testing it is fine to me. CentOS 6 I don't really
>>> have a comment on, I'm not in that ecosystem myself.
>>>
>>> --
>>> Joshua Colp
>>> Digium, Inc. | Senior Software Developer
>>> 445 Jan Davis Drive NW - Huntsville, AL 35806 - US
>>> Check us out at: www.digium.com & www.asterisk.org
>>>
>>> --
>>> _____________________________________________________________________
>>> -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com --
>>>
>>> asterisk-dev mailing list
>>> To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit:
>>>    http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-dev
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> [image: Digium logo]
>> Scott Griepentrog
>> Digium, Inc · Software Developer
>> 445 Jan Davis Drive NW · Huntsville, AL 35806 · US
>> direct/fax: +1 256 428 6239 · mobile: +1 256 580 6090
>> Check us out at: http://digium.com · http://asterisk.org
>>
>> --
>> _____________________________________________________________________
>> -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com --
>>
>> asterisk-dev mailing list
>> To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit:
>>    http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-dev
>>
>
>
>
> --
> George Joseph
> Digium, Inc. | Software Developer
> 445 Jan Davis Drive NW - Huntsville, AL 35806 - US
> Check us out at: www.digium.com & www.asterisk.org
>
>
> --
> _____________________________________________________________________
> -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com --
>
> asterisk-dev mailing list
> To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit:
>    http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-dev
>



-- 
[image: Digium logo]
Scott Griepentrog
Digium, Inc · Software Developer
445 Jan Davis Drive NW · Huntsville, AL 35806 · US
direct/fax: +1 256 428 6239 · mobile: +1 256 580 6090
Check us out at: http://digium.com · http://asterisk.org
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.digium.com/pipermail/asterisk-dev/attachments/20170412/04f30dbf/attachment.html>