[Asterisk-Dev] FYI: RPM

[Steve Kann]

Kenneth Porter wrote:

> --On Wednesday, March 30, 2005 2:36 PM -0500 Greg Boehnlein 
> <damin at nacs.net> wrote:
>
>> When you are happy with your updates, please get me the SRPM file
>> and I'll give it a once over, and build on the same target platforms as
>> the other RPMS that I've used. Thanks for updating and contributing!
>
>
> Will do. The initial cut is looking good, but I want to set it up to 
> run as a mortal, by creating user "asterisk" and assigning him 
> ownership of the writable files and config directory.
>
> Do you recall why zapata and libpri were BuildReq's in 1.0? Did the 
> linkage change since then so that they're truly no longer prereqs?


If you don't have zaptel and libpri, then chan_zap and some other things 
won't build.

Then, if a user with zaptel tries to use your RPM, it won't have those 
modules.

So, while you can make an asterisk RPM without them, it's better to 
build with them. In that case, it should still work if you don't have 
these things.

-SteveK