[asterisk-users] Asterisk and CentOS 8

Mon May 11 08:52:50 CDT 2020

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*
>> Digium - A Sangoma Company | Software Developer | Software Engineering
>> 445 Jan Davis Drive NW - Huntsville, AL 35806 - US
>> direct/fax: +1 256 428 6012
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>>
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