Re: Bootstrapping PEAR for distros

On 4/14/06, Adam Gołębiowski <adamg@biomerieux.pl> wrote: > On Thu, Apr 13, 2006 at 10:18:17AM -0700, Justin Patrin wrote: > > It's a bit hackish in the first place for distros to be repackaging > > PEAR packages and installing them with its installer since PEAR has > > its own installer. The correct way to upgrade PEAR packages is to use > > the PEAR installer directly. > > The reason that we (PLD) repackage PEAR packages and put them into RPMs > is that we want to benefit from RPM's dependecies. For example, if one > of our users decides to install eventum, PEAR's Benchmark, DB, Date and > other packages are also installed. > > This is something that can't be easily done with PEAR's installer, and > we can not assume that user has access to the http. > Ummm...excuse me? PEAR handles dependencies exceddingly well. Of course, it can't download and install PHP extensions for you, but that's not too hard to do. You could even add an extension to PEAR to install these extensions via RPM. > > PS: In case this mail doesn't hit pear-dev, anyone knows whom can I > contact to solve this issue? I keep getting mails but can't post to the > list. listmaster@, postmaster@ or is there any other address I could > write to? Seems to be working fine. > > -- > .. :: Przeznacz 1% swojego podatku dochodowego: :: .. > .. :: http://www.pomocdladominiki.com.pl/ -- możesz pomóc > :: .. > | Everybody needs someone sure, someone true, > PLD Linux developer | Everybody needs some solid rock, I know I do. > -- Justin Patrin