SAIL FAQs

Introduction

• As of Feb 2013, SAIL v3.1.1 is considered stable and v4.0.0 is in development.
• SAIL v3.2.0 has been discontinued and users can either downgrade to v3.1.1 Stable or upgrade to v4.0.0 Testing.
• Upstream version changes and updates to CentOS 5, SME8, Asterisk 1.8 and Digium 1.8 and feature enhancements and maintenance to SAIL are sought to be listed in this FAQ article so as to benefit the building of generic white box SAIL appliances.
• This FAQ will in most part apply to all versions of Asterisk / DAHDI but has been tested and specific to Asterisk v1.8.
• sark.db table and field names in particular as and when they are introduced / changed are explained here
• Base versions taken are v3.1.1-22 and v4.0.0-43.

SAIL v4.0.0 only

• SAIL v4.0.0 runs on SME 8 and there are no current plans to make it run on a vanilla CentOS.
• smesailenvast18 rpm is available only in the ISO. All it does is set the asterisk delimiter in globals to a comma, Digium changed the delimiter from pipe (|) to comma(,) in 1.8. You can use it, if you are running 1.8, or set the value manually, doesn't matter which. It's in the ISO repo because we know ahead of time which asterisk we are running. V3/V4 will also run with 1.4 so the variable has to be changeable. Don't run with Asterisk 1.6 because it's nasty.
• smesailenv should be installed first before SAIL or along with it rpm -Uvh sail... smesailenv...