[Asterisk-Users] linux kernel 2.6.6

[Dorian Gray]

Robert Withrow wrote:
> On Tue, 2004-06-29 at 14:52, Kevin Walsh wrote:
>>Robert Withrow [bwithrow@] wrote:
>>>Do you have CVS ebuilds?  That would make it a lot easier for us Gentoo
>>>folks. 
>>There'd have to be a release before that happens. :-)
> 
> No, there are "cvs" ebuilds that fetch the latest from CVS and then do
> the right thing with it.  I just thought you might have created them
> already.  There is a Gentoo bug already asking for these.

actually, that bug does not *ask* for cvs ebuilds, it *provides* them ^_^
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=33345
I doubt gentoo plans to ever add them to portage, but 
zaptel-cvs-0.5.ebuild and asterisk-cvs-0.2.ebuild work just fine in 
overlay mode, with linux 2.4 and 2.6.

what I do: point /usr/src/linux-2.6 at /usr/src/linux, and then forget 
about it. then just link /usr/src/linux to the latest kernel sources I'm 
using.

>>Just get the latest source from CVS and type "make" and "make install".
>>It's almost as easy as an emerge and doesn't take any more or less time.
> 
> Yes, but you don't get the Gentoo integration.
> 
>>An emerge would probably splatter files all over the filesystem, just
>>like the default Asterisk install, whereas I prefer to have it all
>>neatly under /opt/asterisk.  That's easily done when you're controlling
>>the make, but emerge probably wouldn't provide a "tidy install" option.
> 
> Opinions vary no doubt, but I don't see any benefit to that.  The emerge
> toolset (qpkg, etc.) is explicit where things go, and the result is
> integrated with everything else in the system, including management
> (/etc/init.d) and the consistent use of /var and /etc.  I don't want
> multiple layouts on my system.

yep, if I emerge unmerge asterisk-cvs or zaptel-cvs, it does a great job 
of cleaning up whatever the initial emerge put onto the filesystem 
(except /etc/* of course, which is protected, and also any 
.gsm/keys/etc. I added that emerge did not put there itself)

I still don't like the asterisk init.d script tho, inittab much 
preferred here.

cheers
++dg