What To Do When Changing From One Asterisk Version To Another ?

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Hello,

I’m compiling Asterisk from source on Debian systems.

I’m currently writing a script I’m planning to launch when upgrading from one Asterisk version to another one within the same class (from 13.4.0 to
13.12.0 or from 13.12.0 to 13.8.0, for instance).

Reading [1], I thought the following would work:
cd /usr/src/asterisk-13.4.0
./configure make make install
… cd /usr/src/asterisk-13.4.0
make dist-clean

After running above commands, /usr/sbin/asterisk and
/usr/lib/asterisk/modules/*.so files still exist. I would expect both /usr/sbin/asterisk and /usr/lib/asterisk/modules/*.so filesto be removed so that if I newly installed asterisk instance wouldn’t inherit uncontrolled files.

I also tried with make clean and make uninstall with the same result but I
may have missed some steps during my trials.

Before diving deeper, are my expectations correct ?

Best regards

[1]
https://wiki.asterisk.org/wiki/display/AST/Building+and+Installing+Asterisk

4 thoughts on - What To Do When Changing From One Asterisk Version To Another ?

  • 2016-12-08 18:23 GMT+01:00 Olivier :

    Correcting myself, make uninstall seems to be what I was after for Asterisk itself. I’m still searching for the equivalent make target for pjproject.

  • If you package the result in a deb instead of directly installing it, you can make sure it is completely removed upon package removal.

  • 2016-12-13 16:19 GMT+01:00 Tzafrir Cohen :

    Yes, I agree !
    The more time I spend on such installation scripting, the more I think I
    should master deb packaging and reuse appropriate tools.