Hi what are the remainders on this one at the moment?
On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 2:21 PM, Stephen John Smoogen smooge@gmail.com wrote:
Hi what are the remainders on this one at the moment?
The blocker is/was having a new enough speex in RHEL to support app_conference, which requires speex 1.2. However, after the recent Debian SSL debacle, the resulting discussion of patches in Fedora-space, and the difficulty in keeping the app_conference patch updated, I think that I'm leaning towards dropping the app_conference patch from the Asterisk package (and probably a couple of others as well). I've already commented the patch out of the current F9 and rawhide package. This decision was made easier because I believe that Digium is working on a new conferencing app that doesn't require a kernel module to operate (which is the reason that I added app_conference in the first place). Unfortunately I don't think that it's supposed to be released until Asterisk 1.6.1 and Asterisk 1.6.0 is still in beta.
However, I haven't tried compiling the Asterisk 1.6 packages for EPEL yet so there may be other issues that need taking care of.
Jeff
On Tue, 20 May 2008, Jeffrey Ollie wrote:
However, I haven't tried compiling the Asterisk 1.6 packages for EPEL yet so there may be other issues that need taking care of.
I had to build an own asterisk package for our company repository as a) speex issue is there and b) asterisk 1.4 seems to be the most reliable for RHEL/CentOS such as 3rd party patches and modules e.g. from Junghanns.NET (they're designing special ISDN cards).
Personally, I don't care about whether asterisk is in EPEL or not, because the tons of patches refused of upstream required to get ISDN cards from Junghanns.NET running are a big issue. I also had to patch zaptel, build a kernel module for it and so on. Libpri e.g. is heavily updated, too. So if you're in Germany, you have only less chances to use a vanilla asterisk and if you're doing ISDN as well and not VoIP only.
Oh, I'm speaking about the professional use of asterisk, not the home use with a AVM card or friends. If you need 4-8 ISDN (maybe even S0 bus) lines on asterisk, there are only two or three well supported cards for Linux where the last one or two are already cheap imitations of Junghanns.NET's.
Greetings, Robert
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