Re: PEAR-1.0b1 - installer fails to update script "pear"

Hi, You can fix this with "go-pear": lynx -source http://go-pear.org | php -q I'll make 1.0b2 install all files with temporary names first, and rename only when the install is ok, to prevent partially installed packages. - Stig On Sun, 2002-10-13 at 11:08, Emre Bastuz wrote: > Hi, > > I´ve tried to update my PEAR installation that comes with PHP 4.2.3. > > The script /usr/local/bin/pear did download the tgz and updated a couple > of things - it did not update the installer script "pear" itself though. > > The 'old' script relied on a function getoptions() which is not available > in the new PEAR version so I have basically made it impossible to use > the installer for any further upgrades/installations by upgrading. > > I am running a FreeBSD 4.6-STABLE system. Apache and PHP were installed from > the ports collection. > > During the PEAR upgrade I noticed that the install path to the new installation > script outputted as '/usr/local/bin///pear' (or similar). I believe there > is something wrong with the path detection. > > I was able to fix this problem by taking 'pear.in' out of the 1.0b1 tgz > file, replacing the wildcards '@something@' by values making sense and > moving this to '/usr/local/bin/pear'. > > I don´t know what goes wrong during installation but this caused me some > headache. > > Any fix in sight? > > Emre > > -- > Emre Bastuz > info@emre.de http://www.emre.de > UIN: 561260 PGP Key ID: 0xAFAC77FD > > ------------------------------------------------- > This mail sent through IMP: http://horde.org/imp/ > > -- > PEAR Development Mailing List (http://pear.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php -- Stig Sæther Bakken, Fast Search & Transfer ASA, Trondheim, Norway http://pear.php.net/wishlist.php/ssb