Re: Re: Bootstrapping PEAR for distros

Greg Beaver wrote:

To my great surprise, I have a simple answer for you that solves all your problems: http://pear.php.net/install-pear-nozlib.phar

Great. We'd spotted that but we weren't sure whether it was "official" and/or consistently updated. Being a PHAR, it's also hard to determine at a glance what version that is, which doesn't help and coincidentally leads onto my comments below.

This is always updated to the latest and greatest PEAR of the moment. In fact, this is what is used to create the snapshots for PHP 5.1.

OK cool. Now for a small request then. Are the releases archived anywhere? Whilst not absolutely essential, it's very useful to be able to go back and retrieve older versions for whatever reason. Additionally, RPM spec files normally contain a link to the upstream source, which is supposed to be a link to the actual source for the version you're building (so that others can download and reproduce), not an ever-changing version. For example, we'd like to put: Source0: http://pear.php.net/somepath/install-pear-nozlib-1.4.9.phar for the spec file for PEAR 1.4.9 (well, we'd macroize the version, but that's irrelevant here) So, is there a place we can already point to for this? If not, any possibility of that? (Note I'm not asking for a change in the existing URL; I would simply suggest that pear.php.net/install-pear-nozlib.phar remains as a copy of/symlink to the current version)

Beware that .phar will not work with PHP < 5.1,

Yep, that's not a problem for current releases of Fedora (which is what we're primarily interested in) as they ship PHP 5.1.x and the php-pear specfile explicitly BuildRequires: php >= 5.1. Thanks! Tim