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 <gjos...@digium.com> wrote: > > > On Sun, May 3, 2020 at 6:07 PM Patrick Wakano <pwak...@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 <cur...@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 >>> Check us out at: https://digium.com ยท https://sangoma.com >>> >>> >>> -- >>> _____________________________________________________________________ >>> -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- >>> >>> Check out the new Asterisk community forum at: >>> https://community.asterisk.org/ >>> >>> New to Asterisk? 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