Hi all, I've gotten asterisk installed on Debian only to realize that the packaged version is 1.0.7. Is there a reason why they're not up to a 1.2.x release? I'm building a system for production and I'm wondering if I should remain at this old version or if there are any serious issues with 1.2.13 on Debian? Should I be able to do an apt-get from unstable and get 1.2.13 and be on my happy way? Thanks for the help on a stupid question, Phil -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.digium.com/pipermail/asterisk-users/attachments/20061210/8ce22490/attachment.htm
On Sun, 10 Dec 2006, Phil Finkler wrote:> Hi all, > > I've gotten asterisk installed on Debian only to realize that the > packaged version is 1.0.7. Is there a reason why they're not up to a > 1.2.x release? I'm building a system for production and I'm wondering > if I should remain at this old version or if there are any serious > issues with 1.2.13 on Debian? Should I be able to do an apt-get from > unstable and get 1.2.13 and be on my happy way? > > Thanks for the help on a stupid question,Not stupid, it's part of Debian philosophy - they considered 1.0.7 to be "stable" enough to be part of the curent stable (sarge) distribution at the time the distribution "went to press" as it were. The Debian team have a habit of back-porting serious security issues, so from a security POV, as long as they are doing their (unpaid!) job right, then you'll be OK from that angle. But you don't have to use their packages for application software like asterisk. I use Debian, but I don't use their asterisk packages! I'm running 1.2.13 compiled & installed as per the standard instructions and it's working just fine for me - the config files are where I expect them to be and it's all "just working". I'm also running Zaptel 1.2.11 compiled against kernel 2.6.18 and 2.6.19 without any issues. (I don't use the Debian kernel package either, but get stock kernels off www.kernel.org) Gordon
On Sun, 10 Dec 2006 11:52:58 -0500 "Phil Finkler" <PhilF@iqconsultinginc.com> wrote:> I've gotten asterisk installed on Debian only to realize that the > packaged version is 1.0.7. Is there a reason why they're not up to a > 1.2.x release? I'm building a system for production and I'm wondering > if I should remain at this old version or if there are any serious > issues with 1.2.13 on Debian? Should I be able to do an apt-get from > unstable and get 1.2.13 and be on my happy way?You had gotten asterisk installed on "Sarge" Debian with the official packages. You can find for asterisk 1.2.13 unofficial packages or you must take the sources of asterisk 1.2.13 from Etch, modify some dependencies and generate the deb files. Other way is update from Sarge to Etch. Charlie
You can run Asterisk 1.2 in sarge using the packages in backports. Just add: deb http://www.backports.org/debian/ sarge-backports main contrib non-free to /etc/apt/sources.list then apt-get update and then apt-get -t sarge-backports install asterisk (you can also pin-priority asterisk's packages, look at APT documentation). -Alex On 12/10/06, Phil Finkler <PhilF@iqconsultinginc.com> wrote:> > Hi all, > > > > I've gotten asterisk installed on Debian only to realize that the packaged > version is 1.0.7. Is there a reason why they're not up to a 1.2.xrelease? I'm building a system for production and I'm wondering if I should > remain at this old version or if there are any serious issues with 1.2.13on Debian? Should I be able to do an apt-get from unstable and get > 1.2.13 and be on my happy way? > > > > Thanks for the help on a stupid question, > > Phil > > > > _______________________________________________ > --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- > > asterisk-users mailing list > To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users > > >-------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.digium.com/pipermail/asterisk-users/attachments/20061211/82438791/attachment-0001.htm