Bug#416143: asterisk_1:1.4.2~dfsg-2(experimental/amd64/xenophanes): FTBFS: Cries for its sound files like a baby

[Tzafrir Cohen]

On Sun, Mar 25, 2007 at 05:01:37PM +0000, Mark Purcell wrote:
> On Sunday 25 March 2007 15:37, Tzafrir Cohen wrote:
> > > The new version still fails to build, but at a later point:
> > > | **************************************************
> > > | ***                                            ***
> > > | *** You must have either wget or fetch to be   ***
> > > | *** able to automatically download and install ***
> > > | *** the requested sound packages.              ***
> > > | ***                                            ***
> > > | *** Please install one of these, or remove any ***
> > > | *** extra sound package selections in          ***
> > > | *** menuselecct before installing Asterisk.    ***
> > > | ***                                            ***
> > > | **************************************************
> > 
> > But we do have a dummy fetch. In debian/rules:
> 
> Do we need dummy fetch?

As you can see, the building won't even start if there is no fetch or
wget installed.

Instead of patching away that requirement, I decided to provide a dumy
"fetch" (the script looks for wget first and fetch after that). It will
be detected if the system has no wget and no fetch and thus the
configure can safely run.

However, should there be a need to use that dummy "fetch" it would exit
with an error and fail the build. This is because automated builds
should not fetch external files.

> 
> As it states above, if we don't request extra sound packages, then asterisk 
> shouldn't try and download and won't need/ check wget..

We will get an error if it tries. I have teste that it doesn't try in
the past.

> 
> Does menuselect.makeopts need additional sound packages in this instance?

I rather stick with the defaults that are in the tarball. Otherwise we
will need to ship extra binary tarball. And naturally we would not want
to get the music-on-hold files we stripped away in the dfsg tarball.

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