Re: upgarding liveuser with PEAR 1.4b

Jeroen Houben wrote: > Greg Beaver wrote: > >> Jeroen Houben wrote: >> >> >>> Hi, >>> >>> pear upgrade -f liveuser >>> WARNING: failed to download pear.php.net/liveuser within preferred >>> state >>> "stable", will instead download version 0.16.6, stability "beta" >>> Did not download dependencies: pear/PEAR, pear/Event_Dispatcher, >>> pear/Log, pear/DB, pear/MDB, pear/MDB2, pear/MDB2_Schema, >>> pear/XML_Tree, >>> pear/Crypt_RC4, use --alldeps or --onlyreqdeps to download >>> automatically >>> downloading LiveUser-0.16.6.tar ... >>> Starting to download LiveUser-0.16.6.tar (-1 bytes) >>> >>> ................................................................................................done: >>> >>> 472,064 bytes >>> ERROR: Adding package pear.php.net/LiveUser to registry failed >>> >>> Am I doing something wrong here? >>> >> >> >> I need much more information to help. pear -V, run the same command as >> pear -vvvv upgrade -f liveuser, whether you're using sudo, and so on. >> >> This is a serious error, one that should never occur under any >> circumstance. It's generally caused by a locking or permissions issue. >> >> > Forgot to ask, but perhaps it is possible to show the underlying OS > error (if any). I wouldn't have even posted this "problem" if the > installer could hint me about insufficient permission. I think it is possible. The error itself is returned from is_writable() (I think, I'm not looking at the code at the moment), so it could be arranged using a $php_errormsg hack, and I think that would work quite well. Open bug report? :) Greg