[asterisk-users] Uninstalling Asterisk? No make uninstall?

[Tzafrir Cohen]

On Sat, Jul 08, 2006 at 07:27:37PM +1000, Carey O'Shea wrote:
> On Sat, 2006-07-08 at 10:58 +0300, Tzafrir Cohen wrote:
> > On Sat, Jul 08, 2006 at 05:43:41PM +1000, Carey O'Shea wrote:
> > > On Sat, 2006-07-08 at 10:22 +0300, Tzafrir Cohen wrote:
> > > > On Sat, Jul 08, 2006 at 04:46:00PM +1000, Carey O'Shea wrote:
> > > > > There does not seem to be any "make uninstall" for Asterisk 1.2.9.1 and
> > > > > Zaptel 1.2.6... 
> > > > > 
> > > > > I tried to apply an uninstall patch but got many Hunk errors from both
> > > > > 1.2.9.1 and latest SVN:
> > > > > http://bugs.digium.com/file_download.php?file_id=8805&type=bug
> > > > 
> > > > Next time, patch --dry-run # :-(
> > > 
> > > It's OK, I did the patch on copies of my built source on an isolated
> > > server, so I still have my original untouched sources that I am
> > > currently running.
> > > 
> > > > > Is there a reason that there is no "make uninstall"? And what is the
> > > > > easiest way to completely remove Asterisk and Zaptel from any given
> > > > > system -- cleanly and properly?
> > > > 
> > > > If you want to "reinstall" just reinstall on top of the old system.
> > > 
> > > I don't need to reinstall, I need to uninstall.
> > > 
> > > > 
> > > > You can't really be sure that the uninstall script you'll be running is
> > > > using the same options as the one you build with.
> > > 
> > > I should be able to with a proper "make uninstall".
> > > 
> > > > 
> > > > If you want to allow a clean uninstall, either use asterisk from a
> > > > decent package or try something like checkinstall .
> > > > 
> > > 
> > > The Asterisk packages built for my systems are always far too out of
> > > date. However you are right, since there seems to be no "make
> > > uninstall", then packages should have been built by hand at compile time
> > > instead of "make install". But it is too late for that now, "make
> > > install" has already been run, hence my post. Is the only option to
> > > manually remove everything?
> > 
> > "Everything" is not much. Mostly /etc/asterisk , /var/lib/asterisk ,
> > /var/spool/asterisk , /var/run/asterisk , /etc/asterisk ,
> > /usr/lib/asterisk (/modules) and /usr/share/asterisk (at least in some
> > cases).
> > 
> > There are also a number of binaries in /usr/sbin (most notably asterisk)
> > which may differ a bit, depending on yor installation method.
> > 
> 
> And the many manpages, 

Right

> and zaptel modules, 

This is not asteris. It's zaptel.

Take a look at the guessswork done in the install target of zaptel. 
Do you really want such guesswork be done automatically? Hint: even
getting the kernel version may notbe trivial. imply deleting everything
under misc/ might deete something else you installed.

> and header include for
> zaptel, 

zaptel.h and libtonezone are part of zaptel, again. 

> and /dev/zap, and /usr/include/asterisk, and rasterisk, and
> safe_asterisk, and /var/log/asterisk, and astkeygen, and astman, 

Right

> ztcfg,
> zttool, and I'm sure there are more.

Zaptel, again.

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