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

[Greg Woods]

On Wed, 2009-08-19 at 14:27 -0700, Steve Edwards wrote:

> > When the developers want to convert the config language, sooner or later 
> > they will stop supporting the old stuff and it won't be possible to get 
> > the newest supported features without converting. 

> I don't see that happening in my lifetime :)

Murphy's Law says it will happen at the time that is least convenient
for me :-)


> This appears to be somewhat inconsistent in your determination to update 
> to 1.6. Are packages for 1.4 available for F11?

Well, Axel did just say that he might be providing some through ATrpms,
so that is a possibility. The standard Fedora repositories have only
1.6. Kevin Fleming also implied that my extensions.conf file ought to
work with only minor changes with 1.6, so I'll probably see why that's
not working as a first step. That looks like the fastest way to get
going under F11.


> I'm not saying I could fix a security issue, but I can download, compile, 
> and install long before anybody could "package" it for me.

Yes, but that also requires you to follow some sort of devel list so
that you know when you need to do this. As opposed to yum/apt-get which
always automatically knows when there is an update.


> 
> In my home, Myth is definitely mission critical :)

We've got a Comcrap DVR as a backup. That would at least catch the shows
where failure would drop the WAF the most. But for me, failures due to
MythTV or Asterisk software are rare. I have had some hardware failures
that put one or the other of these out of commission for weeks at a
time, and it does suck to go back to the 20th century :-)


> I was just hoping to 
> > find something that would aid in that effort, but so far all I have seen 
> > are suggestions on how to avoid having to do it at all.
> 
> Not at all. I'm just saying if the available packages are "doing it" for 
> you, compiling the source is pretty trivial.

Right, but you're still telling me how I can avoid having to convert. I
still haven't seen anyone point to something that would HELP me convert.

--Greg