Re: Relocating a pear installation

From: Date: Fri, 08 Sep 2006 15:24:16 +0000
Subject: Re: Relocating a pear installation
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Justin Patrin wrote: >> Hmm .. really? I mean, when I relocate my pear installation (= >> physically moving files around) my data dir goes with it, so this should >> , and in my case, does work. Or did I understood you wrongly? >> > > The problem is that the PEAR installer supports replacements at > install time and one of these replacements is the data dir. When > installed the scripts get an absolute path to the data dir. If the > package isn't smart enough to have a fallback it will fail to find its > data. Thanks for clarification. So unless package rely on paths during runtime from pear configuration files there's no way/sense to automate relocation. - - Markus -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.1 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFFAYsg1nS0RcInK9ARAosqAJ4z45Eib/jzU+I9QtIvt1lVvCf0LwCgqhh7 yGzamQ7OjJxFLFk/W94uRi8= =2csH -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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