Am Sonntag, 23. Januar 2005 14:17 schrieb Stroller: > Hi, > > I'm posting because I'm interested in the Asterisk PBX / VoIP server > software, and have been reading the Asterisk-Users mailing list > recently. Earlier this month there was a thread [1] in which a couple > of posters have discouraged the use of Portage for Asterisk, with the > comments: > > On Jan 6, 2005, at 10:25 am, Niksa Baldun wrote: > > My suggestion is: don't use emerge for *. I am a big fan of Gentoo and > > emerge, but some packages are just not mantained well. I had a lot of > > strange problems when using emerge to install *. Just check it out > > from CVS and compile manually. This also makes it easier to apply > > various pathes > > [author is using * here to mean "Asterisk"] > > and: > > On Jan 6, 2005, at 3:44 pm, Brian West wrote: > > No it didn't.. it runs as root. REPEAT AFTER ME.. > > > > I WILL NOT INSTALL ASTERISK, LIBPRI or ZAPTEL from PORTAGE! > > > > That's the only answers.... I'm a gentoo user too and I NEVER use > > portage > > for those three things > > I don' really like this advice, as I consider that the only way to > improve Gentoo's support for a package is to submit bug-reports & > patched ebuilds.
Neither do i, if you don't like a certain behaviour of an ebuild open a bug and if you're abled to, submit patches. Random complains won't help anybody (and i won't waste my time answering such posts). So, if anybody has something he doesn't like with the current situation: Please talk directly to me! (see below for the most effective way of contact...) > > I would be extremely glad to `emerge asterisk` and to work with the > VoIP herd on submitting bugs & (to the best of my limited ability) > patches, and I would like to make a posting to the Asterisk-Users > mailing list to encourage them to do the same. That'd be nice, patches are always welcome and i'll try to include them in a timely manner. > > However I see from Gentoo's Bugzilla that there are a number of bugs > currently open against Asterisk, some several months old, and I'm > posting to enquire after the status & current level of interest in the > Asterisk ebuilds. If there is difficulty maintaining the package then > there is little point in myself or others reporting additional bugs, > and I'm wondering if there's any way to improve support for Asterisk in > Portage, or users' perception of it? I tend forget to close old ones... (sometimes because i'm waiting for feedback that never arrives...) The best way to reach me is via IRC, i've opened a new channel on freenode (#gentoo-voip), contributors and users are welcome to join. > > Many thanks for your time reading this, > > Stroller. > stkn -- [email protected] mailing list
