Patching Asterisk for Vicidial

[spaquet]

Hi,

I'm wondering which patches and in which cases they should be applied to asterisk.

When installing Asterisk there is a list of patches to be applied (some seems to be for old buggy releases of Asteriks, some not, and lot of people are complaining after patches have been applied).

I noticed on this forum that in some cases some patches are no more requested (Asterisk has been patched and the released used is OK to run without applying patches from Vicidial).

The question is now: HOW TO KNOW WHEN YOU NEED TO APPLY OR NOT A PATCH ???

Shouldn't it be easier to have all this cleaned once.

Let's say, we start using Asterisk 1.4.X.X and from this point these patches have to be applied (and all those which are useless removed from the list).

It will prevent many of us to lost a lot of time trying to figure out which ones have to be applied or not.

Bests

[mflorell]

It all depends on the versions of Asterisk you want to use.

Asterisk 1.4.18+ should work out of the box. We have applied patches to fix some bugs(that Digium won't put into the 1.4 tree for some reason) and to make things more stable and efficient in high-volume installations.

We have recently been testing 1.4.27.1 which requires fewer of these patches, but we still patch things like MusicOnHold, new meetme enter/leave sounds, waitforsilence and sometimes the gcc/gsm patch if the system has an affected version of GCC

[boybawang]

There are already patched asterisk packages for vicidial at this locations:

http://download.vicidial.com/required-a ... ici.tar.gz

http://download.vicidial.com/required-a ... ici.tar.gz

[spaquet]

Sounds great but when you are building from source downloaded via SVN it is not that great.

I'm using this configuration as development and production and it's always messy.

Last time I noticed that almost all patches were obsolete...

Some doc (in vicidial) are requesting patches and others like Ubuntu not...

I think that the doc needs some cleanup regarding this important point.

[mflorell]

We usually update the REQUIRED_APPS.txt doc in SVN trunk rather frequently when we do new releases and when we certify new Asterisk releases. Since it looks like we are close to certifying 1.4.27.1 we will be on the same release as the current 1.4 tree release of Asterisk. Right now all of our patches that are applicable to 1.4.27.1 have been updated.