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Table of Contents
Alpine Linux latest-stable (written when latest-stable == 3.16.0)
Note about missing packages
Some Asterisk modules are unavailable due to the lack of available packages on Alpine Linux. These currently are:
beanstalk
- Available as a package, but I'm not installing it :)codec2
- Unavailable as a package, but the most recent commit does compile and installiksemel
(Jabber-specialised XML parser) - Unavailable as a package, most recent source simply doesn't compile, but version 1.4 does compile and install.nbs
(Network Broadcast Sound) - Unavailable as a package, compiling from source doesn't work without patching formusl
.osptk
(Open Settlement Protocol) - Unavailable as a package (unsure why), couldn't be bothered finding source and seeing if it compiles.radius
- Installingfreeradius-dev
is not sufficient, and I'm not interested in figuring out what package is required for this one.resample
- Installinglibresample-dev
is apparently not sufficient, even though the install-prereqs script checks for the header file installed by that package before attempting to build from source.. I do not care enough.vpb
(Voicetronix) - Unavailable as a package, website is confusing, don't care enough.
Applications
app_jack
is unavailable due to resampleapp_osplookup
is unavailable due to osptk
Call Detail Recording
cdr_beanstalkd
is unavailable due to beanstalkcdr_radius
is unavailable due to radius
Channel Event Logging
cel_beanstalkd
is unavailable due to beanstalkcel_radius
is unavailable due to radius
Channel Drivers
chan_misdn
(ISDN BRI/PRI) is unavailable due to isdnnet, misdn and suppservchan_nbs
(network broadcast sound) is unavailable due to nbschan_phone
(linux telephony api) is unavailable due to ixjuserchan_vpb
(Voicetronix) is unavailable due to vpb
Resource Modules
res_corosync
is unavailable due to corosyncres_timing_kqueue
is unavailable due to kqueue
Install commands
Not exactly a ready-to-run script, more a log of all the commands I ran in the pursuit of sippies. During the menuconfig step, I enabled everything possible except for any deprecated modules that aren't enabled by default anyway.
- install.sh
apk add -t pbx-build-deps alpine-sdk alsa-lib-dev asterisk-openrc \ binutils-dev bison bluez-dev bsd-compat-headers \ cmake curl-dev \ dahdi-linux dahdi-linux-dev dahdi-tools dahdi-tools-dev doxygen \ fftw-dev findutils flex freeradius-utils freetds-dev \ gmime-dev graphviz-dev gsm-dev \ ilbc-dev imap-dev \ jansson-dev \ libedit-dev libical-dev libpri-dev libresample libsamplerate-dev libsndfile-dev libsrtp-dev libtool libxml2-dev libxslt-dev libzip-dev \ lua-dev lua5.2-dev lua5.3-dev lua5.4-dev \ mariadb-connector-c-dev mariadb-dev mysql-client \ neon-dev net-snmp net-snmp-dev newt-dev \ openldap-clients openldap-dev openssl-dev opus-dev opusfile-dev \ pjproject-dev popt-dev portaudio-dev postgresql14-client postgresql14-dev \ spandsp spandsp-dev speex-dev speexdsp-dev sqlite sqlite-dev \ tar tiff-dev \ unbound-dev unixodbc-dev uriparser uriparser-dev util-linux-dev \ xmlstarlet mkdir -p /usr/local/src/patches/asterisk /usr/local/src/dist/asterisk /usr/local/src/build/codec2 cd /usr/local/src/dist git clone https://github.com/drowe67/codec2 git clone https://github.com/timothytylee/iksemel-1.4 iksemel cd /usr/local/src/build/codec2 cmake /usr/local/src/dist/codec2 make -j5 make install cd /usr/local/src/dist/iksemel # not sure what the order of operations is supposed to be here because I ran autoupdate # but then got messages from autogen.sh about obsolete things I should fix with autoupdate.. autoupdate ./autogen.sh ./configure # edit makefile here to remove all variables referencing the doc folder, # followed by removing the doc folder from SUBDIRS # otherwise make will error out because it wants to build the documentation # TODO: make a patch for that vi Makefile make -j5 make install cd /usr/local/src/patches/asterisk wget https://git.alpinelinux.org/aports/plain/main/asterisk/10-musl-mutex-init.patch wget https://git.alpinelinux.org/aports/plain/main/asterisk/20-musl-astmm-fix.patch wget https://git.alpinelinux.org/aports/plain/main/asterisk/30-asterisk-mariadb.patch wget https://git.alpinelinux.org/aports/plain/main/asterisk/40-asterisk-cdefs.patch wget -O 50-usecallmanager-18.11.3.patch https://raw.githubusercontent.com/usecallmanagernz/patches/master/asterisk/cisco-usecallmanager-18.11.3.patch cd /usr/local/src/dist/asterisk wget http://downloads.asterisk.org/pub/telephony/asterisk/releases/asterisk-18.11.3.tar.gz cd /usr/local/src/build tar xzf /usr/local/src/asterisk/dist/asterisk-18.11.3.tar.gz mv asterisk-18.11.3 asterisk cd /usr/local/src/build/asterisk patch --strip=1 < /usr/local/src/patches/asterisk/10-musl-mutex-init.patch patch --strip=1 < /usr/local/src/patches/asterisk/20-musl-astmm-fix.patch patch --strip=1 < /usr/local/src/patches/asterisk/30-asterisk-mariadb.patch patch --strip=1 < /usr/local/src/patches/asterisk/40-asterisk-cdefs.patch patch --strip=1 < /usr/local/src/patches/asterisk/50-usecallmanager-18.11.3.patch # Asterisk official documentation makes a big stink about how you should only use their bundled pjproject # otherwise you'll have instabilities and whatever, but their bundled pjproject doesn't build cleanly on Alpine # so they can stink up somewhere else. CFLAGS="-DENABLE_SRTP_AES_GCM -DENABLE_SRTP_AES_256" ./configure --without-pjproject-bundled make menuconfig ./contrib/scripts/get_mp3_source.sh make -j9 make install samples addgroup -S asterisk adduser -S -D -h /var/lib/asterisk -s /sbin/nologin -G asterisk -g asterisk asterisk addgroup -S dialout addgroup asterisk dialout chown -R asterisk:asterisk /run/asterisk chown -R asterisk:asterisk /var/lib/asterisk chown -R asterisk:asterisk /var/log/asterisk chown -R asterisk:asterisk /var/spool/asterisk
Configuration
This part was initially extremely daunting. Not helping matters is that the fact that there are no pages online (that I could find) that discuss a viable minimal configuration for a recent Asterisk version. Apparently either nobody is starting fresh with Asterisk in 2022 or nobody is interested in writing about it. Further frustrating matters is that Asterisk's official wiki, a Confluence site, went down shortly after I began the process of setting Asterisk up.
modules.conf
I started here, and essentially trimmed the config file down to autoload=yes
, because I disabled all modules in make menuconfig
that I didn't want to actually use.
- modules.conf
[modules] autoload=yes
features.conf
I then went here, and I trimmed it down to just the things that seemed relevant.
- features.conf
[general] transferdigittimeout => 3 xfersound = beep xferfailsound = beeperr ;pickupsound = beep ;pickupfailsound = beeperr featuredigittimeout = 1000 ;recordingfailsound = beeperr atxfernoanswertimeout = 15 atxferdropcall = no atxferloopdelay = 10 atxfercallbackretries = 2 transferdialattempts = 3 transferretrysound = beep transferinvalidsound = beeperr atxferabort = *1 atxfercomplete = *2 atxferthreeway = *3 atxferswap = *4 pickupexten = *8 [featuremap] ; requires two channels to be both answered and bridged, chan_local is needed w/ Answer in order to use them while RP is ringing or in progress disconnect => *0 ;requires H or h automon => *1 ;requires W or w atxfer => *2 ;requires T or t automixmon => *3 ;requires X or x blindxfer => #1 ;requires T or t parkcall => #72;requires X or x [applicationmap]