[Freeswitch-users] Should I switch to Debian?

Carlos Ruiz Díaz carlos.ruizdiaz at gmail.com
Wed May 20 02:02:44 MSD 2015


+1 on Alex's approach.

I used to use RPMs, but constantly waiting for them to be updated turned
into a PITA, so I switched to source code as well.

Regards,
Carlos
On May 19, 2015 16:56, "Alex Balashov" <abalashov at evaristesys.com> wrote:

> My personal view is that distro packaging for Freeswitch, Asterisk,
> Kamailio, and most OSS VoIP elements is unreliable, inconsistent and
> lopsided, so the only viable approach is to build these things from source,
> always. This allows one to maintain granular version controland to apply
> ‎patches as needed.
>
> If you just forget packaging and learn to love the source, you'll obviate
> a vast category of problems and not waste time on fighting with packages.
> It also has the positive side effect that you can support pretty much any
> server distribution. Debian, CentOS, RHEL, Ubuntu server, who cares?
>
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