[asterisk-users] New CentOS 5 repo: dahdi, asterisk, freepbx RPMs

[John Morris]

Hi, Axel.

Axel Thimm wrote:
 > How about merging in your changes/improvements/new packages with
 > ATrpms (and automatically later into rpmrepo.org)? That way we won't
 > have further fragmentation and a larger user base to test bits (which
 > will be distributed in stable, testing etc repos).

Of course I'd love to contribute my changes to ATrpms.  Some of the 
small changes I made, such as adding OSLEC to the DAHDI RPMs, might be 
nice for ATrpms users.  I'll whip up some patches against the ATrpms 
sources.

My problem with ATrpms, though, is that the RPMs make use of many custom 
macros that make them unbuildable outside the ATrpms environment.  I 
understand that might be necessary for RPMs like DAHDI that build kernel 
modules for several versions of several distros, where vanilla specfile 
code would get hairy.  (I think we had this discussion a couple of years 
ago on the ATrpms ML.)  Since I don't have to worry about multiple 
versions of multiple distros in my environment, I prefer to use vanilla 
specfile that will rebuild on anyone's CentOS 5 system.

     John