[Freeswitch-users] Debian repository out of date

[Ken Rice]

Also, the reason for so many packages is that you don't nessecarily need all
the packages for a production system, reducing the ammount of installed
modules can reduce attack footprint, reduces in memory and install foot
print for small machines (read embedded like raspberry pi, not everyone has
> 250G of storage capacity everywhere they might run freeswitch from debian
packages)

Theres a lot of other things in there also... People complaing about
building the centos RPMs for the same reason, they try to just run the some
command that's used to build ${random} RPM and wonder why it doesn't work...

You have to keep in mind that we arent just building packages for 1 version
of any package system we're building version for multiple platforms and
multiple versions of those platforms, and then multiple variants...

Example for centos we build for centos 5 and 6, then we build 32 and 64 bit
versions there

For debian we build for Squeeze thru Sid and then build 32 and 64 bit
versions there, just those 2 platforms alone account for something like a
dozen different builds of the same things...

K


On 9/5/13 6:12 PM, "Karl Schmidt" <karl at xtronics.com> wrote:

> I tried building the set of debian packages after adding the patch for freetdm
> - had to add some
> build dependencies.
> 
> BUT it never built most of the packages and most of the freeswitch-mod-??? are
> missing.
> 
> So I ran it again without the patch - no joy.
> 
> I suppose there are other bits broken in the debian directory?
> 
> So I have 38 packages instead of the 286 packages in the repository.
> 
> I'm thinking in the current era of 4 terrebyte drives, there is little reason
> to break things down
> into so many packages. I would imagine just a few would do.
> 
> I would suggest a similar approach as is done with exim - a minimal system -
> with a few libs and a
> second package to max out all the features,
> 
> In the mean time - I've run into so many unexpected problems with the digium
> card and freetdm - (the
> lack of a sane configuration, documentation etc) that I ordered a grandstream
> box for fxo.
> 
> 
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