FreePBX 2.6 did not upgrade Asterisk

[JRoque]

Hi. For what is worth, installing FreePBX 2.6, Asterisk 1.6 and CentOS 5.4 is not that hard. I had some issues with the Asterisk install because of an exclude kernel* directive in a CentOS repo file. Once that got fixed - and it took me a while to figure out - the rest was straight forward. Everything seems to be working so far.

JR

 

[jroper]

Hi

The exclude directive is there to stop people yum updating the kernel, which breaks Dahdi, and Dahdi has to be recompiled each time the kernel is upgraded

Joe

 

[JRoque]

Ah, good tip. Now that I finally got the kernel-devel package to install, I can probably unrem the exclude statement going forward.

Thanks,
JR

 

[dstroot]

As for pulling heads out of the sand the 1.6 build has been available in PIAF since it's first release to beta. The only tool that has been missing recently is the upgrade-source16 which will be available RSN.

Again - you guys provide all this great stuff for free and I really appreciate it.

But... you don't really support 1.6. The installed version is very old and upgrade-source16 hasn't been provided in over a year. RSN isn't really RSN is it?

I know Ward HATES the fact they broke old stuff and renamed Zaptel and probably can't wait for FreeSwitch but in my humble experience today Asterisk 1.6 and FreePBX 2.6 are the best of the current lot. It would be great to have the convenience of your scripts. In the meantime I'll handroll it.

 

[ErikU]

I agree.

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[TDF]

Pardon the ignorance here I have no idea whats actually in these scripts, but is there any more to it than changing one line of code in the last update-source so that it updates us to a more secure version of asterisk ?

 

[dstroot]

Pardon the ignorance here I have no idea whats actually in these scripts, but is there any more to it than changing one line of code in the last update-source so that it updates us to a more secure version of asterisk ?

The scripts are not provided as source they are "compiled" - another pet peeve but I respect the protection of their intellectual property but it seems unneighborly - and people like you or me could have potentially done just that (fixed the script) and provided it back to the PIAF community. *sigh*

 

[dstroot]

I'm probably gonna get banned if I keep this up.

I LOVE PIAF!!!!!

 

[TDF]

Left in the dust by the greenies, oh the shame.

http://trixbox.org/devblog/asterisk-16010-rev-3

 

[briankelly63]

I agree its time to change the comments regarding Dahdi in the update-source script... quite a few revisions of Dahdi have occurred and its really not accurate at this point to refer to it as alpha software. Its time to embrace Dahdi.

We seem to have a feud going on with Digium, in my opinion and experience that kind of fighting is counterproductive to the long term success of products like PIAF and communities like ours....

Brian

 

[JRoque]

Hi. Well, can't complain anymore. Joe put out a new script that will upgrade us to the latest everything. It can also build a PiaF ISO image just like they do in the download site.

I guess we got shut up pretty good 8- ) Thanks Joe and Co.

http://nerdvittles.com for details

JR

 

[jroper]

Hi

It only creates an ISO, so you can install without 398Mb of yum updates, It does not upgrade you to the latest version. Tom's update-source does that. However to generate the ISO you need to run it on any installation of CentOS 5.4, hence the requirement for update-source, the host does not need to be PBX in a Flash.

You could just as easily fire up disc 1 of CentOS 5.4 and do a minimal install on vmware, then run the script and create a new PiaF ISO on there, rather than run update-source on a production PBX.

I'd just built the same script for FonicaPABX, and Foncordiax, and it is so trivial to do that I threw one together for Piaf as well, and delivered it to Ward this morning to see what he thought about it, and I'm amazed to see it written up so quickly.

I wish I'd thought of the methodology years ago, I'd have saved days and weeks creating the ISO's I've built since.

Joe

 

[Snapdragon]

Very nice.

 

[ErikU]

So, I finally decided to try the 1.6 upgrade.. the directions seemed fine. After a reboot I was still running 1.4 and have now idea why!!??

Hi

This should not be too difficult - I'm writing this from memory, so no guarantees, and as ever, you must understand the risks, and how to get back to where you were.

Use update-source to get to a point where you have Asterisk 1.4 and Dahdi installed - Dahdi and Libpri is the same across all versions.

Now go an download asterisk and asterisk-addons from http://downloads.asterisk.org/pub/telephony/asterisk/ by doing wget <<url>> in the /usr/src

then untar them - tar zxfv <<filename>>

go into the new asterisk 1.6 directory, and do:-

make clean
./configure
make menuselect
make
make install
make config

Then into asterisk-addons 1.6 directory, and run the same commands as above, with the exception of make config

reboot, login, then type rasterisk, and confirm that you are now running Asterisk 1.6

Joe