[asterisk-users] Asterisk Centos RPM packages question

[Jason Parker]

On 10/17/2011 02:22 PM, Ioan Indreias wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Trying to upgrade (from asterisk18-1.8.6.0-1) to the latest RPM
> version from Asterisk repo I found that asterisknow-version is needed
> by package asterisk18-core-1.8.7.0-2
> 
> How could this be explained?
> 
> Best regards,
> Ioan
> 

The asterisknow-version package contains the repository files (see
/etc/yum.repos.d/) for the repositories on packages.asterisk.org and
packages.digium.com.  Installing this should have been in the setup instructions.

The repository layout has changed significantly, and people that didn't install
this package would have been stuck on old versions of Asterisk.  We opted to add
this package as a dependency (as it should have always been one) to resolve that
issue.


Short version: This is intentional.