[Freeswitch-users] Should I switch to Debian?

Michael Jerris mike at jerris.com
Wed May 20 07:08:30 MSD 2015


You don't need to wait for Debian packages, they are already in our public repo.  These packages will always be up to date with our latest public releases.


> On May 19, 2015, at 10:20 PM, Stanislav Sinyagin <ssinyagin at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 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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