It would be nice if net-misc/asterisk installed astererisk's sample dialplan *.conf to e.g. /usr/share/asterisk/<version>/ Then the user could decide, which if any, of the new configuration options should be include in their dialplan. For example, I keep my dialplans in /etc/dialplans/<freepbx-asterisk-version> with a symlink /etc/asterisk -> choosen dialplan so that asterisk can configure itself Reproducible: Always Actual Results: For for than a year, I had put off upgrading from asterisk 1.4 to 1.6 But asterisk-1.4 got masked pending removal from portage. So I decided to test out asterisk-1.6 I backed up all of portage's asterisk*-1.4 ebuilds, backed up my /etc/dialplan/freepbs-asterisk-1.4 and did a quickpkg of asterisk*-1.4 files + zaptel Then I unmasked asterisk-1.6 and dahdi, uninstalled zaptel and replaced with dahdi-2.2.0.2 ran dahdi_cfg to generate /etc/dahdi/system.conf (replacement for /etc/zaptel) and upgraded to asterisk-1.6.1.6 Then etc-update wanted to change ~50 files. So I manually merged some of the files if the new file deleted lines, and updated others that didn't delete anything (other than comments) I ended up with a functioning but partially broken dialplan. So I untarred freepbx-2.6.0RC2 then copied the freepbx dialplan stubs back to /etc/asterisk cd amp_conf; for f in `find . -name *.conf`; do B=`basename $f`; cp $f /etc/asterisk/$B; done Then I set /etc/asterisk/asterisk.conf:dahdichanname = no /etc/amportal.conf:ZAP2DAHDICOMPAT=true and let freepbx update (from the database backend) the supplemental configuration files which get included from the stub files. Expected Results: Asterisk should be able to upgrade without overwriting users' dialplan. I know I could point /etc/asterisk symlink to (say) /etc/dialplans/samples but sometimes one does "emerge -uvDN world" and it would be nice not to have to shutdown the phone system, point /etc/asterisk to somewhere innocuous, let things emerge, then restore symlink and restart phone system. I know I could probably use CONFIG_PROTECT to spare my dialplan, but the configuration files from asterisk are merely templates with mostly comments, and some arbitrary phones and users. They are not a real working dialplan. My 2 cents suggestion is to put them in /usr/share/asterisk/<version>/
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 286574 ***
