Karl Fife wrote: > I was about to ask this question when I figured out the answer by combing > through the makefile. > I am posting this anyway because I think it's good to know, and I didn't > find any threads that speak to it when I searched the list history. > > My Question was: > When updating Asterisk, the sound tarballs for the selected codecs are not > retreived until running make install. This adds unnecessarily to the > downtime when updating versions because Asterisk has to be stopped while > running make install. I wanted a simple way to pre-fetch these files to a > local repository to speed up the actual install routine, instead of slowing > it by the arbitrary duration of the fetch/download process which robs > valuable NINES from uptime :-) > > I discovered that after running make, you can run 'make sounds' before > shutting down the service. This cuts all of the download time from the > install process minimizing service downtime to a fraction of what it would > othewise be.
You can also just grab and un-tar the sound files by hand from: http://downloads.asterisk.org/pub/telephony/sounds/ On a side note, why does the sounds directory not display in the directory listing when looking at http://downloads.digium.com/pub/telephony/ ? -Dave _______________________________________________ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
