Re: Re: Pkg

On 10 Sep 2002, Stig S. Bakken wrote: > The PEAR installer was written with RPM and other packaging systems in > mind. You can create an RPM package where RPM installs all the files, > and in the "post" RPM script run "pear install -r package.xml" to > register the package as installed (and likewise "pear uninstall -r > Package" in "postun"). If someone wants rpms - please take it from PLD: ftp://ftp.pld.org.pl/PLD-1.0/i686/PLD/RPMS/php-pear-* These are noarch, so it will be no problem to install on other systems. There are dependencies autogenerated. It really works. > When using CPAN on RedHat boxes, I often don't bother getting the RH > packages for CPAN stuff, but use the CPAN installer directly instead. > This isn't a very good solution though, and IMHO PEAR should play nice > with other package systems. sure. > For people who want to make sure all their packages are maintained > through RPM (or another system such as APT or PKG), it could be > interesting to add a config parameter that requires that the > -r/--register-only option is used during install. For example: > > mybox$ pear config-set package_manager rpm > mybox$ pear install Foo > pear: This PEAR installation is managed through the external package > manager "rpm". 'register-only' option is required. > > If the -r/--register-only option is used, the install command goes > through. If someone wants to use pear packages database what for does he need take packages from rpm? Thats why in my packages I'm not using pear installation. > This is just to remind forgetful or unknowing users that an external > package manager is wanted. I guess there should be an option to > override if a package really, really has to be upgraded and there is no > RPM yet (--force or --no-package-manager). There is one thing missing for me in pear. pear --show-deps package.xml pear --show-provides package.xml That will _generate_ what classes provides that package and what classes are needed by this. Now this things are written manually and this is not good. I have shell script that makes such a things, but this should written in php and incorporated with pear command. :) -- --------------------------------- pozdr. Paweł Gołaszewski --------------------------------- CPU not found - software emulation...