FAD -- startin' early

[John Poelstra]

Jeffrey Ollie said the following on 09/30/2009 07:12 PM Pacific Time:
> On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 8:53 PM, Mike McGrath <mmcgrath at redhat.com> wrote:
>> On Wed, 30 Sep 2009, Jeffrey Ollie wrote:
>>> The problem with using versions before 1.6.2.X is that to get
>>> conferencing you either need to hack in a 3rd party patch (which was
>>> too difficult to maintain so I took it out of the Fedora package) or
>>> use a kernel module that isn't upstream.  Yeah, that means we're kind
>>> of stuck with a prerelease version but I'm not sure what else to do.
>> Correct me if I'm wrong, I thought we had that version ready for rawhide
>> (back when F11 was rawhide)?  What happened with all that?
> 
> IIRC that was a 1.6.1.0 release candidate with a bunch of patches
> backported from trunk.  Time passed and what was trunk then is now a
> 1.6.2.0 release candidate, so we can at least work from a minimally
> patched tarball.  The patches are mostly just getting Asterisk to
> build in the "Fedora" way, without adding any functionality.  I'm also
> going to see what it takes to build on RHEL, but I may have to disable
> some functionality that depends on libraries that aren't new enough in
> RHEL.
> 

Thanks for looking into all of this now!  I think it is awesome that we 
are figuring this stuff out now instead of at the FAD :-)

John