[Asterisk-Users] Asterisk 0.7.1 RH 7.3 RPMS Released

[WipeOut]

Greg Boehnlein wrote:

>Hello all,
>	Per my last message to the list, and my promise to the Developers 
>that I'd create RPMS if they released 0.7.0, I would like to announce the 
>availability of experimental RPMS for Asterisk release 0.7.1. These are 
>targeted at RedHat 7.3 systems, running the latest Kernel release 
>(2.4.20-28.7). As the RPMS mature and people submit comments, changes, 
>updates and patches, I will begin maintaining RedHat 8,9 and Fedora Core 1 
>RPMS... but we are a long way away! ;) I have absolutely -NO- idea if 
>these will work, or if the modules will load, so if you feel like giving 
>it a try, please let me know how it works out for you.
>
>The RPMS are available at:
>ftp://ftp.nacs.net/asterisk/RPMS/asterisk-0.7.1-1.i386.rpm
>ftp://ftp.nacs.net/asterisk/RPMS/kernel-module-zaptel-0.8.0-1_2.4.20_28.7.i386.rpm
>ftp://ftp.nacs.net/asterisk/RPMS/libpri-0.5.1-1.i386.rpm
>ftp://ftp.nacs.net/asterisk/RPMS/zaptel-0.8.0-1.i386.rpm
>
>The SRPMS are available at:
>ftp://ftp.nacs.net/asterisk/SRPMS/asterisk-0.7.1-1.src.rpm
>ftp://ftp.nacs.net/asterisk/SRPMS/libpri-0.5.1-1.src.rpm
>ftp://ftp.nacs.net/asterisk/SRPMS/zaptel-0.8.0-1.src.rpm
>
>The README:
>Asterisk 0.7.1 RPMS for RedHat 7.3
>----------------------------------
>These are experimental RPMS for RedHat 7.3 based systems to 
>install the Asterisk 0.7.1 Open Source PBX. I would caution 
>people against using these on Production systems, as they have 
>not yet been extensively tested, nor have they been optimized. 
>Please help the cause by sending any changes, patches or updates 
>to <damin at nacs.net>.
>
>Install in the following order:
>rpm -Uvh libpri-0.5.1-1.i386.rpm
>rpm -Uvh zaptel-0.8.0-1.i386.rpm
>rpm -Uvh kernel-module-zaptel-0.8.0-1_2.4.20_28.7.i386.rpm
>rpm -Uvh asterisk-0.7.1-1.i386.rpm
>
>For configuration and getting started, point your favorit PDF 
>reader at: http://www.digium.com/handbook-draft.pdf
>
>These RPMS are made possible from a combination of work that I 
>have done and the excellent work of Tom Moertel 
>(http://community.moertel.com) for the Zaptel RPM.
>
>Release: 1/22/2004
>  
>
This is great to see.. but why RH7.3 (or RH8 for that matter) since it 
has already been EOL'ed by RH??

For those who use RH or Fedora Core, RH9 is EOL in April and FC2 is 
scheduled for release in April as well..