Hi,
I'm posting because I'm interested in the Asterisk PBX / VoIP server software, and have been reading the Asterisk-Users mailing list recently. Earlier this month there was a thread [1] in which a couple of posters have discouraged the use of Portage for Asterisk, with the comments:
On Jan 6, 2005, at 10:25 am, Niksa Baldun wrote:
My suggestion is: don't use emerge for *. I am a big fan of Gentoo and emerge, but some packages are just not mantained well. I had a lot of strange problems when using emerge to install *. Just check it out from CVS and compile manually. This also makes it easier to apply various pathes
[author is using * here to mean "Asterisk"]
and:
On Jan 6, 2005, at 3:44 pm, Brian West wrote:
No it didn't.. it runs as root. REPEAT AFTER ME..
I WILL NOT INSTALL ASTERISK, LIBPRI or ZAPTEL from PORTAGE!
That's the only answers.... I'm a gentoo user too and I NEVER use portage
for those three things
I don' really like this advice, as I consider that the only way to improve Gentoo's support for a package is to submit bug-reports & patched ebuilds.
I would be extremely glad to `emerge asterisk` and to work with the VoIP herd on submitting bugs & (to the best of my limited ability) patches, and I would like to make a posting to the Asterisk-Users mailing list to encourage them to do the same.
However I see from Gentoo's Bugzilla that there are a number of bugs currently open against Asterisk, some several months old, and I'm posting to enquire after the status & current level of interest in the Asterisk ebuilds. If there is difficulty maintaining the package then there is little point in myself or others reporting additional bugs, and I'm wondering if there's any way to improve support for Asterisk in Portage, or users' perception of it?
Many thanks for your time reading this,
Stroller.
[1] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.telephony.pbx.asterisk.user/74051 [2] http://tinyurl.com/6b2hd
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