asterisk users - Sep 2010 - http://www.asterisk.org/downloads naming schema

Hi!

Since some time the download of the newest Asterisk does not contains 
the version number anymore, but is just called
"asterisk-1.4-current.tar.gz"

This gives me a tarball where I do not know the version without looking 
into the tarball.

Thus, IMO it would be very useful to switch back to old schema war the 
download contained the version number.

Thanks
Klaus

On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 11:45 AM, Klaus Darilion
<klaus.mailinglists at pernau.at> wrote:
> This gives me a tarball where I do not know the version without looking
> into the tarball.
>
Should be simple to do, since

http://www.asterisk.org/downloads/asterisk/releases/asterisk-1.8.0-betaX.tar.gz

currently redirects to the proper download.

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On 22 Sep 2010, at 16:45, Klaus Darilion wrote:
> Since some time the download of the newest Asterisk does not contains 
> the version number anymore, but is just called
"asterisk-1.4-current.tar.gz"
> 
> This gives me a tarball where I do not know the version without looking 
> into the tarball.
> 
> Thus, IMO it would be very useful to switch back to old schema war the 
> download contained the version number.
http://downloads.asterisk.org/pub/telephony/asterisk/

Klaus Darilion wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> Since some time the download of the newest Asterisk does not contains 
> the version number anymore, but is just called
"asterisk-1.4-current.tar.gz"
> 
> This gives me a tarball where I do not know the version without looking 
> into the tarball.
> 
> Thus, IMO it would be very useful to switch back to old schema war the 
> download contained the version number.
> 
> Thanks
> Klaus
> 
Its normally just a symbolic link to the current version. If you untar 
the archive the directory name will represent the actual software version.
If you want to switch back to an old version then you are best off 
keeping the uncompresssed and already compiled version anyway as you 
know for sure you are reinstalling the older version exactly as it was 
before.

Hi Klaus,


If you are using a script you could get the version with something like:

tar -tf asterisk-1.4-current.tar.gz | head -n1



Regards,



Klaus Darilion wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> Since some time the download of the newest Asterisk does not contains 
> the version number anymore, but is just called
"asterisk-1.4-current.tar.gz"
> 
> This gives me a tarball where I do not know the version without looking 
> into the tarball.
> 
> Thus, IMO it would be very useful to switch back to old schema war the 
> download contained the version number.
> 
> Thanks
> Klaus
> 
-- 
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http://www.eSlackware.com
IRC: Khratos @ #asterisk / -doc / -bugs

On 10-09-22 11:45 AM, Klaus Darilion wrote:
> Hi!
>
> Since some time the download of the newest Asterisk does not contains
> the version number anymore, but is just called
"asterisk-1.4-current.tar.gz"
>
> This gives me a tarball where I do not know the version without looking
> into the tarball.
>
> Thus, IMO it would be very useful to switch back to old schema war the
> download contained the version number.
I don't understand really. The downloads.asterisk.org site contains the
current
version in the pub/telephony/asterisk/ directory, and there is a symlink to the 
current version which is named asterisk-1.4-current. On the Downloads page on 
asterisk.org we have the link setup to asterisk-1.4-current (and 1.6.2-current, 
etc.) but that again is just the symlink to the currently available version.

The Downloads page is also updated with text in the table with the currently 
available version, such as 1.4.36 or 1.6.2.13, etc, so I'm not sure what
you're
asking to be changed. We've been doing it like this for quite some time (in
the
timeframe of years, to my knowledge).

Thanks!
Leif.