[Asterisk-Users] Asterisk download file locations

[Peter Fern]

Still, if you mirror them yourself, this problem all but goes away.

Alistair Cunningham wrote:

> Colin,
>
> Because having the logic is not the correct thing to do from an 
> engineering point of view. Consider:
>
> - What if Digium change the directory structure again? Having a 
> published directory structure is the elegant thing to do.
>
> - Not only does it break build scripts but it breaks search engines too.
>
> - Our scripts already have more conditional logic than I'm happy with, 
> dealing with all the inconsistencies that Linux distributions throw at 
> us. Anything which makes the installation process less brittle is a 
> good thing.
>
> Alistair Cunningham,
> Integrics Ltd,
> +44 20 799 39 799
> sip:acunningham at integrics.com
> http://integrics.com/
>
>
> Colin Anderson wrote:
>
>> Why wouldn't you build in trivial conditional logic into your script or
>> mirror the Asterisk builds yourself?
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Alistair Cunningham [mailto:acunningham at integrics.com]
>> Sent: Monday, March 06, 2006 8:20 PM
>> To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion;
>> webmaster at digium.com
>> Subject: [Asterisk-Users] Asterisk download file locations
>>
>>
>> This is a request to the website manager for asterisk.org.
>>
>> The build scripts for our ITSP product include the URLs to download 
>> the Asterisk files, such as:
>>
>> wget "http://ftp.digium.com/pub/asterisk/asterisk-1.2.5.tar.gz"
>>
>> However, if a new version is released, asterisk-1.2.5.tar.gz is moved 
>> to the "old" directory. This breaks our scripts until we can update 
>> them and send them to our resellers.
>>
>> Would it be possible to have a fixed address for a particular 
>> asterisk release that will never (or at least not for a long time) 
>> change? Perhaps put all (except very old) versions in the same 
>> directory, with a   'latest' link to the latest one?
>>
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