[asterisk-users] Minimizing downtime during updates

[Dave Fullerton]

Karl Fife wrote:
> 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.

You can also just grab and un-tar the sound files by hand from:
http://downloads.asterisk.org/pub/telephony/sounds/

On a side note, why does the sounds directory not display in the 
directory listing when looking at 
http://downloads.digium.com/pub/telephony/ ?

-Dave