Re: Offline PEAR

# pear-dev@meebey.net / 2003-07-24 22:44:41 +0200: > On Thu, 2003-07-24 at 21:50, Martin Jansen wrote: > > I doubt so: Downloading all PEAR packages at once > > > > a) does not make any sense in 99,9% of all cases > > b) will make us run into serious bandwidth problems at some point > > > > Thus using Alexander's code without really knowing why and what you are > > doing is absolutely not recommended. > > Our company does webhosting for our customers, doesn't it make sense > when I want to install all stable packages on the webserver, so the > customer can decide which nice PEAR package he wants to use and which > not? > > You are right, some ppl just will use install-all because they are lazy > to lookup the 3 packagename he wants. And this would do increase the > bandwidth usage, but what is about my webserver for customers?? > > Altough, lets think a bit further, I got an email of a package > maintainer für a new Linux distri, he's creating distri pacakges out of > the PEAR packages, what about him? He should be able to use a bit of scripting. pear list-all | sed -n '4,$p' | cut -d ' ' -f 1 | while read p; do pear install $p done Or is he one of the people "who are just lazy"? :) -- If you cc me or remove the list(s) completely I'll most likely ignore your message. see http://www.eyrie.org./~eagle/faqs/questions.html