[Freeswitch-users] Should I switch to Debian?

[Stanislav Sinyagin]

you don't need to wait for Debian packages, and you can build them
yourself, for any revision that is required. Then the whole
installation and upgrade process is well-managed, with proper startup
scripts and permissions. I guess the RPM's are easy to build as well,
I just never needed to do that.

The package builder is failing under Ubuntu, but it's not a server
platform anyway :-))
https://freeswitch.org/jira/browse/FS-7534




On Wed, May 20, 2015 at 12:02 AM, Carlos Ruiz Díaz
<carlos.ruizdiaz at gmail.com> wrote:
> +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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