[asterisk-users] What to do when changing from one asterisk version to another ?

[Olivier]

2016-12-13 16:19 GMT+01:00 Tzafrir Cohen <tzafrir.cohen at xorcom.com>:

> On Thu, Dec 08, 2016 at 06:23:15PM +0100, Olivier wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I'm compiling Asterisk from source on Debian systems.
> >
> > I'm currently writing a script I'm planning to launch when upgrading from
> > one Asterisk version to another one within the same class (from 13.4.0 to
> > 13.12.0 or from 13.12.0 to 13.8.0, for instance).
> >
> > Reading [1], I thought the following would work:
> > cd /usr/src/asterisk-13.4.0
> > ./configure
> > make
> > make install
> > ...
> > cd /usr/src/asterisk-13.4.0
> > make dist-clean
> >
> > After running above commands, /usr/sbin/asterisk and
> > /usr/lib/asterisk/modules/*.so files still exist.
> > I would expect both /usr/sbin/asterisk and /usr/lib/asterisk/modules/*.so
> > filesto be removed so that if I newly installed asterisk instance
> wouldn't
> > inherit uncontrolled files.
>
> If you package the result in a deb instead of directly installing it,
> you can make sure it is completely removed upon package removal.
>

Yes, I agree !
The more time I spend on such installation scripting, the more I think I
should master deb packaging and reuse appropriate tools.


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