asterisk users - May 2004 - Asterisk upgrade on production box

What is the best way to upgrade a production asterisk box?  make upgrade?  I
don't want my configs messed with, and need the process to go as smooth as
possible.  I fetched and built a new kernel last night, but haven't rebooted
into it.  I'll do that tonight, and then want to quickly upgrade to the
latest asterisk (mainly for zttest.)

Does make upgrade fetch head?

Thanks

Nik

I'm sure there are better ways, but I usually do the following:

1) make sure my current source directory is named something else (see 
step 3)

2) fetch cvs head

3) mv asterisk to something like asterisk_cvs_head_5_21. This keeps all 
the old source trees around so that I can easily roll back to any 
version I've installed previously.

4) cd to the new asterisk directory (whatever you called it in step 3)

5) make

7) asterisk -r

8) show channels to make sure nobody's using it

9) stop now

10) exit asterisk

11) make install

12) restart asterisk

Note that if you don't 'make samples' the stuff in /etc/asterisk
won't
get torched. This should be fine, assuming that the new version doesn't 
require any config changes. Naturally, you'll want to poke around in 
asterisk/configs to see what kind of new options are available.

-brian


Nik Martin wrote:
>What is the best way to upgrade a production asterisk box?  make upgrade?  I
>don't want my configs messed with, and need the process to go as smooth
as
>possible.  I fetched and built a new kernel last night, but haven't
rebooted
>into it.  I'll do that tonight, and then want to quickly upgrade to the
>latest asterisk (mainly for zttest.)
>
>Does make upgrade fetch head?
>
>Thanks
>
>Nik
>
>
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> What is the best way to upgrade a production asterisk box?  make upgrade? 
I
> don't want my configs messed with, and need the process to go as smooth
as
> possible.  I fetched and built a new kernel last night, but haven't
rebooted
> into it.  I'll do that tonight, and then want to quickly upgrade to the
> latest asterisk (mainly for zttest.)
An approach that has worked good in the past is to...
1. rename your /usr/src/asterisk (and others) to /usr/src/asterisk-may20
2. do a complete checkout/build/install as though building from scratch.

If you need to go back to a previous version, simply rename the directories
and reinstall. I've had problems with 'cvs update' in certain cases
after
new files added to cvs or I've touched a local file for whatever reason.