Re: PHP build --with-pear fails: conflict over /tmp/pear/cache

Keith Roberts <keith@karsites.net> wrote: > Well I compiled PHP with the following ./configure options: > (I'm the only user on my system - 'keith' or 'root') [...] > So I now have PEAR in /usr/local/PEAR. Reason for doing this [...] > I generally run PEAR as root user anyway, so maybe that's > why I have not encountered the /tmp/pear/cache writeable > problem you mention. What about creating a seperate group > for the /tmp/pear/cache, and adding your normal users to it, > so they have write access to that dir? I think you misunderstood the problem. I am the sysadmin, so I can do things as root if I want to. I deliberately do builds as myself on some systems specifically *because* I do not want those builds to have permissions to clobber stuff used by the system. The problem is that if PEAR is *already* installed and in use, there appears to be no way to do a *different* build without interfering with the one that's already installed and in use. My workaround let me make a new build and make an RPM out of it, but it is not elegant. There seems to be a bug in PEAR here and I haven't yet found a real solution to it. However, this would not affect you in any way if you just have on PHP+PEAR build per system, and upgraded it in-place by just building and installing a new one over it. It would only affect you if you wanted to build a new version or configuration of PHP+PEAR on a system that already has PEAR installed on it, without altering or interfering with the currently installed build. -- Cos