[asterisk-users] Asterisk version: 1.2.9.1 or older?

[Martin Joseph]

On Jul 13, 2006, at 9:39 AM, Rich Adamson wrote:
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> Okay.  There has been about 20 or so (pure guess on the actual number) 
> patches applied to the v1.2 code in svn in the last few weeks. I don't 
> have a clue whether any of those patches related to queues, but would 
> have to guess that some do.
>
> For those that are running v1.2, it certainly is not difficult to 
> execute "make install" from within the asterisk source directory and 
> pick up those updates/patches.
I don't think that will add the patches, will it? I thought this builds 
from the already present sources?
>
> As I understand it, the 1.2.9.1 distro is a snapshot of the svn v1.2 
> source code (on some specific date/time), and that executing the "make 
> update" simply applies those patches that will be going into 1.2.10 
> (or whatever the next stable release number happens to be).
Doesn't "make update" look at CVS?

>
> So, by running 1.2.9.1 code, you're running something that is known to 
> contain bugs. And, by not doing an update, its essentially suggesting 
> that bug fixes are not important enough to apply them.

I would love to see a simple explanation of how to update to the 
latest, including patches.  Although I am not using queues, I have 
wondered about this ever since the change over to SVN, and this seems a 
good place to ask.

Thanks for any help explaining,
Marty