[asterisk-users] Help building dahdi for debian

[Alex Samad]

On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 05:40:16PM +0300, Tzafrir Cohen wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 11:58:51PM +1000, Alex Samad wrote:
> > Hi
> > 
> > I am in the process of installing a new box and using dahdi. I have a
> > tdm410 + hardware echo canceller.
> > 
> > I have just read in the read me for dadhi that VPMADT032  support has
> > been removed and unlike with the zaptel stuff i could just download and
> > install the firmware I can't with dahdi 
> 
> What do you mean? I suspect that the following patch:
> 
> http://patch-tracking.debian.net/patch/series/view/dahdi-linux/1:2.2.0~dfsg~rc5-1/no_firmware_download 
yeah I downloaded the source and found this patch, 

> 
> BTW: legal purity aside, downloading an external source at build time is
> generally a big no-no for a build server on Debian. Thus this
> downloading breaks my intention to get the modules distributed in the
> distribution as part of linux-modules-2.6 package (which includes all
> sorts of external modules).

I understand, but it was feasible in zaptel to build a package were all
you had to do was download the firmware - I haven't looked at the dep /
source requirements so I am not sure if the is feasible on the debian
build servers


> 
> If you're not using those packages (and build at a place with internet
> connectivity) you should have no problem.
> 
> Which is the case for you?

building my own package from your source just removing the above
offending patch :)

any chance of getting digium to host a digium debian repo (sort of how
virtulbox doit), that way they could have a fully build package ?


alex

> 

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