[asterisk-users] Asterisk version: 1.2.9.1 or older?

[Rich Adamson]

Don Pobanz wrote:
> Rich Adamson wrote:
>> For others to better understand the issues, did you install asterisk 
>> as a distro or download v1.2 svn code and compile?
> 
> I downloaded the 1.2.9.1 release from the www.asterisk.org website and 
> compiled it.
> 
>> If you installed source via svn, did you try "make update" to pick up 
>> any patches?
> 
> I have not used svn. This is the 1.2.9.1 release with no patches applied.

Okay.  There has been about 20 or so (pure guess on the actual number) 
patches applied to the v1.2 code in svn in the last few weeks. I don't 
have a clue whether any of those patches related to queues, but would 
have to guess that some do.

For those that are running v1.2, it certainly is not difficult to 
execute "make install" from within the asterisk source directory and 
pick up those updates/patches.

As I understand it, the 1.2.9.1 distro is a snapshot of the svn v1.2 
source code (on some specific date/time), and that executing the "make 
update" simply applies those patches that will be going into 1.2.10 (or 
whatever the next stable release number happens to be).

So, by running 1.2.9.1 code, you're running something that is known to 
contain bugs. And, by not doing an update, its essentially suggesting 
that bug fixes are not important enough to apply them.