[OpenSIPS-Users] OpenSIPs on CentOS

[Bogdan-Andrei Iancu]

Hi Darren,

This was started on a separate thread, but the sake of completion, see 
the online comments.

Darrin Henshaw wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> First time poster here. I’m running a few Asterisk 1.2 systems across 
> geographically different areas. At our main site we are running an 
> Asterisk cluster, using Heartbeat, it works well, but I’m always 
> looking at improving it. To that extent I want to test out OpenSIPS as 
> a load balancing option in my test environment.
>
> My manager, who I have to follow guidelines set by him, is a large fan 
> of RPM installations rather than source. Due to that I’m trying to 
> build an RPM of OpenSIPS to be used on EL4. He also like using yum 
> when it comes to updating and installing since it will handle 
> dependencies fairly well.
>
Marc just provided a RPM repo for OpenSIPS - http://centos.leurent.eu/ 
and read the README.txt

> Now onto my actual reason for emailing. In attempting to build the RPM 
> I can get most of the dependencies installed, with the exception of 
> libxml2. That’s the kicker. I can get the rpm for it from 
> ftp://xmlsoft.org/libxml2/, but there are a fair amount of 
> dependencies for it, and I don’t have the correct repositories for it. 
> My questions are as follows:
>
> 1. Does anyone know a fairly easy way I can nab the dependencies for 
> libxml2? RPM’s or yum repos would be best.
>
check the rpmfind.net site

http://rpmfind.net/linux/rpm2html/search.php?query=libxml2&submit=Search+...
>
> 2. What would be the downside of simply ignoring the dependency for 
> libxml2, and CPL? The actual spec file supplied states:
>
> %%package cpl
>
> Summary: CPL interpreter engine for the OpenSIPS.
>
> Group: System Environment/Daemons
>
> Requires: opensips = %ver
>
> BuildPrereq: libxml2-dev
>

if you do not need CPL (Call Processing Language interpretor) and 
presence stuff, you can ignore the libxml2 dependency.

Best regards,
Bogdan
>
> Thanks.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Darrin Henshaw
>
>
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