[asterisk-users] Minimizing downtime during updates

[Karl Fife]

I was about to ask this question when I figured out the answer by combing 
through the makefile.
I am posting this anyway because I think it's good to know, and I didn't 
find any threads that speak to it when I searched the list history.

My Question was:
When updating Asterisk, the sound tarballs for the selected codecs are not 
retreived until running make install.  This adds unnecessarily to the 
downtime when updating versions because Asterisk has to be stopped while 
running make install.  I wanted a simple way to pre-fetch these files to a 
local repository to speed up the actual install routine, instead of slowing 
it by the arbitrary duration of the fetch/download process which robs 
valuable NINES from uptime :-)

I discovered that after running make, you can run 'make sounds' before 
shutting down the service.  This cuts all of the download time from the 
install process minimizing service downtime to a fraction of what it would 
othewise be.

-Karl