[Freeswitch-users] freeswitch directories moved

[Steven Ayre]

The project is currently in a feature freeze working towards a version 1.2 release.

As part of this the Redhat and Debian packages are being improved and standardised to be compliant with the various FHS requirements. The move to /etc is precisely part of the standardisation that you are so desperate for.

Sound files are data and don't belong in /etc, personally I'd say they belong under /usr along with the test of the FreeSWITCH binaries - if they're still in /opt then (without following the work the rpm maintainer us doing) its probably a transition that's still in progress.

If this caught you by surprise, then you should always be testing a setup before putting it into production. Once 1.2 is released it'll become the stable branch and offer far fewer surprises.


Steve on iPhone



On 18 Jun 2012, at 23:01, shadowym <shadowym at hotmail.com> wrote:

> Who’s idea was it to move the freeswitch directories in the RPM and why?
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> Is it too much to ask that directories are standardized and don’t change?!
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> Do you know how distruptive it is when you move all the config files from /opt to /etc.!  Not only that but the hierarchy has been changed.  The /conf directory has been removed even though it’s in all the documentation on the Freeswitch wiki.  Wtf?  I am used to config files being in /etc for Asterisk.  Despite all the disadvantages with Asterisk at least they are sticking with that decision!  Of course if I compile from scratch I suppose I can choose  the directory myself but for various reasons I used the RPM so I don’t have much choice in the matter unless I want to make my own RPM which isn’t very good use of my time imho.  But wait, it gets worse!  Whoever made this decision decided just moving everything and getting rid of /conf directory was not disruptive enough.  So they decided to split it up and leave the sound files where they are in /opt/freeswitch.  Again, wtf?!
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