[asterisk-users] Asterisk on Debian Lenny with timerfd

[Andrew Latham]

On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 10:29 AM, RR <ranjtech at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 4:56 AM, RR <ranjtech at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 4:06 AM, Roger Burton West <roger at firedrake.org>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 02:58:45AM -0500, RR wrote:
>>> >In the meantime, does anyone have a nice way to update a stable/stock
>>> > lenny
>>> >installation with the updated glibc as well as the latest kernel
>>>
>>> At this point the easiest option will be to upgrade to squeeze.
>>>
>>> R
>>
>> Umm yeah that might not be a smart thing to do since eventually all of
>> this needs to run in a production environment and Squeeze is still in a RC
>> mode. Would be nice if I could go to it though but don't think it'll be that
>> smart esp. all other software that needs to work along with it might break
>> too...who knows
>
> Wow, alright, after an all-nighter, I was able to get timerfd.so compiled in
> Asterisk 1.8.2.2 under Debian Lenny 5.0.7 with Kernel 2.6.26-2-amd64. Of
> course, due to the glibc requirement of 2.8+, a lot of dodgey upgrades had
> to be performed. I have no idea how "stable" this is going to be in
> production but I am going to write a quick "How-To" and stick it on the Wiki
> if someone can point me to the correct location this should go to. A lot of
> components needs to get upgraded in the correct order to have this work
> well, but it might save someone else the time and effort. Will respond to
> this email again, with the link to the Wiki page once I am done with the
> HowTo and people tell me where it needs to go.
>
> Cheers,
> \RR

Debian Squeeze is more stable now than other distros and will be
officially announced within a month or two. Timerfd works well on
Debian Squeeze.

~~~ Andrew "lathama" Latham lathama at gmail.com ~~~