asterisk users - Sep 2005 - Any way to not overwrite sound files on compile?

Every time I recompile Asterisk (or upgrade to a new CVS-HEAD,
whatever) asterisk overwrites custom files I have made.  Granted,
these files are named the same as the asterisk default files
(vm-login.gsm, etc) because we had a person here record them to
customize them a bit more for our application.

Short of keeping them somewhere and copying them back every time
(which isn't all that often) I do a re-compile.  Is there some flag or
something to tell Asterisk not to install sound files, or at the very
least not to overwrite ones already existing?

Hi,
just do NOT type "make samples": this commands writes original sounds
in
your dirs even if your old custom messages are present.
(I'm talking about 1.0.7 * version, maybe in newer * versions this 
command is included inside some install script).


Giorgio.


Matt wrote:
>Every time I recompile Asterisk (or upgrade to a new CVS-HEAD,
>whatever) asterisk overwrites custom files I have made.  Granted,
>these files are named the same as the asterisk default files
>(vm-login.gsm, etc) because we had a person here record them to
>customize them a bit more for our application.
>
>Short of keeping them somewhere and copying them back every time
>(which isn't all that often) I do a re-compile.  Is there some flag or
>something to tell Asterisk not to install sound files, or at the very
>least not to overwrite ones already existing?
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When compile only type 'make'  and copy manually your module/s from
asterisk
apps directory into your asterisk modules directory.

regards.
G.


Matt wrote:
>Every time I recompile Asterisk (or upgrade to a new CVS-HEAD,
>whatever) asterisk overwrites custom files I have made.  Granted,
>these files are named the same as the asterisk default files
>(vm-login.gsm, etc) because we had a person here record them to
>customize them a bit more for our application.
>
>Short of keeping them somewhere and copying them back every time
>(which isn't all that often) I do a re-compile.  Is there some flag or
>something to tell Asterisk not to install sound files, or at the very
>least not to overwrite ones already existing?

On 9/29/05, Matt <mhoppes@gmail.com> wrote:
> Every time I recompile Asterisk (or upgrade to a new CVS-HEAD,
> whatever) asterisk overwrites custom files I have made.  Granted,
> these files are named the same as the asterisk default files
> (vm-login.gsm, etc) because we had a person here record them to
> customize them a bit more for our application.
>
> Short of keeping them somewhere and copying them back every time
> (which isn't all that often) I do a re-compile.  Is there some flag or
> something to tell Asterisk not to install sound files, or at the very
> least not to overwrite ones already existing?
> _______________________________________________


I believe 'make upgrade' will do what you want.

What about doing something like say that the files localized for your
particular installation are in another language? Just do something like
language=enmycompanyname, put your modified sound files in
/var/lib/asterisk/sounds/enmycompnayname, et voila! No more overwriting of
your files, and you get fallback behaviour to the standard asterisk sounds
as well when new, nonlocalized sounds are included in the distribution.

- James
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