[asterisk-users] * 1.4 -> 1.6, zaptel -> dahdi

[David Backeberg]

On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 11:56 AM, Greg Woods<greg at gregandeva.net> wrote:
> This has got to be an FAQ, so if someone can point me to where it is
> answered, I would be greatly appreciated. The documentation for all this
> stuff is scattered and (to me at least) either very sketchy or hard to
> find.
>
> What I want is a guide for how to convert from 1.4 with zaptel to 1.6
> with dahdi. All the recent kernel vulnerabilities are forcing me to
> upgrade my home server from no-longer-supported Fedora 8 up to Fedora
> 11, and that means upgrading asterisk as well.

It sounds like you would really rather not convert from 1.4 to 1.6 right now.
So don't.

I'm going to suggest something controversial. Build from source, and
don't even spend more than 1 minute looking for an rpm.

http://downloads.asterisk.org/pub/telephony/asterisk/

tar -x
./configure
make
make install

Done.