[asterisk-users] Asterisk and CentOS 8

Wed Dec 9 17:25:37 CST 2020

In case anyone out there is working with CentOS, you might reconsider that
decision: https://blog.centos.org/2020/12/future-is-centos-stream/

On Mon, 11 May 2020 at 23:53, George Joseph <gjoseph at digium.com> wrote:

>
>
> On Sun, May 3, 2020 at 6:07 PM Patrick Wakano <pwakano at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hello George,
>> Hope this finds you well!
>> I wonder if there has been any progress on this matter?
>>
>
> Sorry, I missed this last week.   We have an internal issue open to
> revisit CentOS 8 and it's at the top of our backlog right now so we should
> have something in the next few weeks.
>
> Thanks for sharing your experience!
>
>
>>
>> I've been working to have Asterisk running on CentOS 8 and our jump from
>> CentOS 6 to 8 doesn't look too bad.... The missing packages found are:
>> gmime-devel, iksemel-devel, corosynclib-devel, libresample-devel, hoard and
>> python-devel. Python-devel could be replaced by python2-devel or
>> python3-devel (python36-devel), but I am not sure if there is any python
>> incompatibility... gmime-devel, iksemel-devel and hoard seems of no use
>> (and they were already missing for CentOS 6 too), so only corosynclib (if
>> you are using it) and libresample may be a problem.... Does anyone knows
>> what is the use of libresample-devel package?
>>
>> Just to share the experience so far, to build Asterisk it is needed to
>> install the epel-release and enable PowerTools. By ignoring the missing
>> packages, the compilation works and we can start Asterisk. My only concern
>> was about the libresample-devel because in the past I think its absence
>> caused issues when loading/starting pjsip modules, but it didn't happen
>> this time (but I am not using pjsip, I just loaded it with the sample
>> config files)....
>> Following on and making Asterisk a systemd service instead of using
>> init.d, I first checked the service file under contrib/systemd but it seems
>> to serve a different purpose, so it could not be used. Instead a very
>> simple one does the job. Just make sure your exec cmd does not have the
>> '-c' option (used in safe_asterisk), because this was causing me a 100% CPU
>> usage (related to this:
>> https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/191621/systemd-service-using-100-of-my-cpu-when-it-doesnt-if-i-start-it-without-syste/368037#368037
>> )
>> Be aware that SELinux may cause permissions and access problems when
>> running as systemd service.... It took me a whole day to figure out that
>> under our configuration (that have included files outside the /etc/asterisk
>> folder) the "problem" was SELinux.
>> Finally, configure firewalld to allow the SIP and RTP ports and you
>> should be ready to go.
>> Also, we are using rpmbuild to create an Asterisk package. rpmbuild (or
>> new red hat policies) is more strict and now complains about the python
>> shebangs that do not have a version (files contrib/script/ref*.py -> what
>> is this used for??). When using the DONT_OPTMIZE flag the compiler warns
>> for every single file saying, so it is quite annoying but does not to cause
>> issues:
>> /usr/include/features.h:381:4: warning: #warning _FORTIFY_SOURCE
>> requires compiling with optimization (-O) [-Wcpp].
>> Anyway, these problems do not happen if you manually build with the
>> simple configure and make commands.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Patrick Wakano
>>
>> On Fri, 18 Oct 2019 at 11:54, Carlos Chavez <cursor at telecomab.mx> wrote:
>>
>>>     They only problem I have found so far is while trying to install
>>> Alembic for SQLAlchemy (for realtime configs).  Those are the only packages
>>> that I cannot get working properly.  Vanilla Asterisk works fine  with the
>>> only extra package needed being libedit-devel that is not included in any
>>> "official" repo.  You need to download the Fedora Core 29 packages to in
>>> order to successfully compile Asterisk.  That being said, I would not
>>> recommend trying to put this in production any time soon.
>>> On 10/17/2019 11:19 AM, George Joseph wrote:
>>>
>>> At the current time, we do not recommend attempting to build Asterisk on
>>> CentOS 8.  Many packages Asterisk uses are not yet available and would
>>> require building from their sources.  The Asterisk packages are also not
>>> available in the EPEL 8 or CentOS 8 repositories yet for the same reason.
>>>
>>> We'll update you when we think it's safe.
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> *George Joseph*
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>>>
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>>
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> Check out the new Asterisk community forum at:
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