Re: Package XML <-> RPM+DEB

On Tue, 2002-03-19 at 09:08, Jean-Michel POURE wrote: > Le Lundi 18 Mars 2002 20:02, Martin Jansen a écrit : > > Sorry to say that, but honestly: Don't you think you sound like the > > most arrogant fool around here? If you don't like PEAR or think we > > are too lazy, just go and play elsewhere - we simply don't have > > enough time to waste it with people like you. > > Dear all > > Sorry for being arrogant, the quality of the work is not at stake : PEAR is > excellent. So please receive my sincere apologies. I read the spec file about > dependencies: > > 1) Where do you intend to store package xml description? Would it be possible > to retrieve package information using PHPdoc? > > 2) Looking at the XML description, it seems possible to generate RPM (or DEB) > spec files out of XML. What do you think? The installer is designed to integrate with RPM and other package systems. Roughly, what you would do is have the package.tgz file as source, install it with "pear -d php_dir=/var/tmp/rpminstallroot/usr/share/pear install package.tgz", package it again with RPM and, use "pear install -r package" in the post-install script and "pear uninstall -r package" in the post-uninstall script. - Stig