Re: Bootstrapping PEAR for distros

Sebastian Bergmann wrote: > Greg Beaver schrieb: > >>http://pear.php.net/install-pear-nozlib.phar > > > What I would like to have is a PHAR version of the PEAR command that I > could use to "extract" a PEAR-packaged .tgz correctly. That would make > it possible to install PEAR packages without the need for a complete > PEAR environment and allow for the user(s) to have their own PEAR > environment that does not interfere with one managed by the > distribution's package manager. Hi Sebastian, The easiest way to do this would be to do a customized version of what we do to make the install-pear-nozlib.phar. What you need to do (and I've had enough requests for this that I am considering adding a brief manual section once things stabilize) is this: - look at pear-core/make-installpear-nozlib-phar.php to see how it works - this requires PHP_Archive 0.8.0 (i.e. CVS version) - create directory pear-core/PEAR/go-pear-tarballs - cd pear-core/PEAR/go-pear-tarballs - pear download -Z whatever_package_you_are_trying_to_install - open up pear-core/PEAR/Start.php and modify these lines to specify packages you would like to make sure are installed: var $corePackages = array( 'Archive_Tar', 'Console_Getopt', 'PEAR', ); - cd pear-core - php make-installpear-nozlib-phar.php and voila - a customized install-pear-nozlib.phar that installs the package(s) of your choice. Greg