Robert Moskowitz wrote: > At 03:27 PM 5/26/2006, Dan Trainor wrote: > >> Robert Moskowitz wrote: >> >>> At 02:35 PM 5/26/2006, Dan Trainor wrote: >>> >>>> Robert Moskowitz wrote: >>>> >>>>> Via google: libtiff 3.8.2 >>>>> http://rpm.pbone.net/index.php3/stat/4/idpl/2839214/com/libtiff-3.8.2-2.x86_64.rpm.html >>>>> >>>>> This got me to a page all about libtiff 3.8.2 for 'Fedora other' >>>>> and a link >>>>> http://rpm.pbone.net/index.php3?stat=3&search=libtiff&srodzaj=3 >>>>> for other distributions. >>>>> So which do I take? >>>>> ? >>>>> http://rpm.pbone.net/index.php3/stat/4/idpl/2845370/com/libtiff-3.8.2-2.i386.rpm.html >>>>> >>>>> please, I really want to get this going! >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> Hi - >>>> >>>> I do not believe that libtiff 3.8.2 is available for CentOS - only >>>> 3.6.1-8 and 3.6.1-10. >>>> >>>> Remember, the goal of the CentOS project is not to provide bleeding >>>> edge software, so you may well get stuck with a slightly older version. >>> >>> >>> So the Asterisk AT Home gang that have built on Centos may have a >>> real problem with spandsp. >> >> >> Hi, RObert - >> >> Well, no - not necessarily. Remember, we try to keep as close to RHEL >> as we can. In fact, I don't know of anything that's actually modified >> to be special for CentOS, aside from the usual. >> >> The *@home guys probably built their own RPMs or installs for their >> setup. Even though it's based on CentOS, doesn't mean it has to BE >> CentOS - it could be a heavily modified version, including additional >> libraries which are mroe bleeding edge, e.g. libtiff-3.8.2. >> >> Hope that clears some thigns up for you. > > > I know the Centos philosophy. I have a number of Centos servers here > and building more. My mail server is Scalix running on Centos. > > The AAH people (actually one person according to the sourceforge page) > has done a great you adding the best Asterisk products on top of > Centos. The libtiff-3.6.1-10 is from Centos 4.3. Sometime back Centos > had libtiff 3.6.0 which the spandsp author said works well and that > 3.6.1 is broken. > > So those of us doing a new install are finding out that faxing is not > working. So I (and many others) have to replace libtiff with either the > older working version or 3.8.2. And when AAH 2.9 comes out with finally > an update mechanism (instead of a reinstall), hopefully the right > libtiff will be in the AAH iso. > > Robert - I am not doubting that you understand the CentOS philosophy by any means. Sometimes I find it necessary to do tweaks such as this one, for example with PHP and MySQL RPMs. I just try to keep it as close as I can to the "stock" CentOS distribution as I can, for obvious reasons. Just wanted to clarify. Thanks! -dant