[asterisk-r2] asterisk using rpm or source compiling

[Anton Krall]

Alejandro and Alexandre

I've always used asterisk by compiling the source code but mainly because I needed to patch chan_zap in order to use openr2, now on 1.8 it has factory default support right? so I just need to compile openr2 and thats it? or do I also need to have asterisk source code and recompile as always? (in which case, yum and rpm is out of the question).


On 15/06/2012, at 14:26, Alejandro Kauffmann wrote:

> On 6/15/2012 11:44 AM, Alexandre Cavalcante Alencar wrote:
>> Hi Anton,
>> 
>> There is anything you really need to customize or change from the source
>> code? If you don't (and can't maintain in sync with new releases,
>> including security ones), don't even start a configure; make; make
>> install sequence of commands.
>> 
>> If you do need to customize source code for some reason, try to do so by
>> using distro source package + patch over the distro source package. It
>> will make your life a lot easy.
>> 
>> Best Regards
>> 
>> Alexandre Alencar
>> Twitter @alexandreitpro
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>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 1:21 PM, Anton Krall <antonkrall at gmail.com
>> <mailto:antonkrall at gmail.com>> wrote:
>> 
>>    Here is another one for you guys.. I see that on EPEL there are rpms
>>    for asterisk 1.8.11 so here is my question, install asterisk using
>>    yum vs compile everything by hand... what are your thoughts?
>> 
>> 
>>    --
> 
> New to the list, but here's my 2 cents.  While it is indeed easier to just "yum update", if you ever need a fix, patch, or back-port to resolve an issue with one of your customers (boss), building from source is the way to go.
> 
> I've been tweaking this beast in a production environments since 0.1.2 and have seen "packaged" versions come an go.  The only thing that has always been available is building from source.
> 
> Alex
> 
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