At 02:27 PM 8/19/2009, you wrote: >Not at all. I'm just saying if the available packages are "doing it" for >you, compiling the source is pretty trivial. If the packages "catch up" >with F11 you can always install them then.
My first experience with Linux and Asterisk was putting a whatever TrixBox was before it was TrixBox disk in a machine and saying install About 3 weeks later I removed all the TrixBox and I've been installing Asterisk from source ever since, including a clean install on a fresh Atom machine when I started with CentOS 5 and then compiled 1.6.2 and Dahdi, moved all my configuration and other necessary files across and 2 days later after figuring all the updates needed in extensions.conf and sip.conf it was all working better than ever. Would have taken much less time if I was more careful reading the update docs and not mis-spelling something in a couple of places. The PBX was down for about 15 minutes while I moved the wires and TDM400 between machines and then it was up again. All that just to say, as far as I can tell working with source is no harder than anything else. Wget into a folder, tar to unpack it, make, then make install, then reboot or just restart gracefully for Asterisk only changes. The only occasional gotcha is when Yum updates the kernel you have to remake Dahdi or it won't work after a reboot. And everything I know about Linux fits on some notes on half a sheet of paper. Ira _______________________________________________ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- AstriCon 2009 - October 13 - 15 Phoenix, Arizona Register Now: http://www.astricon.net asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
