[Asterisk-Users] Asterisk PBX in Debian

[Tzafrir Cohen]

On Fri, Oct 07, 2005 at 07:37:26AM -0400, gw at adcomcorp.com wrote:
> Why bother with packages anyhow?  I just installed debian base and did a
> cvs get for head, and all good to go.

And if you have several systems?

> 
> Besides I found that using packages with asterisk on debian can do odd
> things to your custom sound files if you do a remove.

Regarding the sounds files: I don't think that the way Asterisk
installer handles them is very optimal either.

Your message got me thinking, though. I believe that Debian is right
installing all sounds to /usr/share/asterisk/sounds . But
/var/lib/asterisk/sounds (/usr/local/asterisk/sounds? ) should still be 
kept for custom sounds that are never touched by the package. 

I figure that file.c:build_filename could be changed to do the
following:

  if exists /var/lib/asterisk/sounds/<filename>
    return /var/lib/asterisk/sounds/<filename>
  else if exists /usr/share/sounds/asterisk/<filename>
    return /usr/share/sounds/asterisk/<filename>

What do you think? I figure I'll try to push this into Debian first.
(If this is indeed a good idea)

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