Pear in EL-4

[Brandon Holbrook]

All, it doesn't look like anyone has attempted to branch their pear 
packages for EL-4.  I received a request recently for Mail_Mime to be 
included in EL-4 as a dependency for roundcube 
(https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=225575).  However, 
I am quickly finding out this isn't just a simple branch-and-build.  It 
looks like the php-pear package in core is still arch-specific and built 
from php's srpm... which puts up major roadblocks for making pear 
packages noarch and dependent on the rpm-version of PEAR instead of PHP.

Has anyone attempted to build pear packages on top of EL-4's existing 
pear package?  Would it (ideally) be possible to build a new 
php-pear.noarch RPM as part of epel?  There is already a 1.4.11 RPM in 
the centosplus repo that is exactly what we need.  If not, we need to 
decided on a new pear policy for EL4, either no pear packages or craft a 
new arch-specific spec file template.

-Brandon

[Remi Collet]

Brandon Holbrook a écrit :
> All, it doesn't look like anyone has attempted to branch their pear
> packages for EL-4.

The actual template for pear extension Requires pear >= 1:1.4.9-1.2

Previous pear were really buggy for packaging.
A lot of stuff has been made to get this template.
> I received a request recently for Mail_Mime to be included in EL-4 as
> a dependency for roundcube
> (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=225575). 
> However, I am quickly finding out this isn't just a simple
> branch-and-build.  It looks like the php-pear package in core is still
> arch-specific and built from php's srpm...

It's arch because build from the php SRPM, but really noarch.
> which puts up major roadblocks for making pear packages noarch and
> dependent on the rpm-version of PEAR instead of PHP.
>
> Has anyone attempted to build pear packages on top of EL-4's existing
> pear package?  Would it (ideally) be possible to build a new
> php-pear.noarch RPM as part of epel?  There is already a 1.4.11 RPM in
> the centosplus repo that is exactly what we need.

This php-pear-1.4.11 is probably provided to works with php-5.1.6 also
in this repo.

RHEL also provides this in the "Red Hat Web Application Stack" channel
(to be verified, i only see php-5.1.2 and pear-1.4.6 on the beta
channel, but i know php-5.1.6 is available as we use it in my company)
but without support AFAIK.

I don't think update from arch to noarch is supported in EL4 (i remember
the problem on FC3 which requires a special yum configuration)
> If not, we need to decided on a new pear policy for EL4, either no
> pear packages or craft a new arch-specific spec file template.

For the RPM i maintained, i choose to push them only on EL5,
But of course, i'm ok to investigated on this issue.

I will prefer to say php-pear extensions are provided for php-5.1.6 /
pear-1.4.11 (RH Web. App Stack or CentOS Plus)

Remi
> -Brandon

[Remi Collet]

Remi Collet a écrit :
> RHEL also provides this in the "Red Hat Web Application Stack" channel
> (to be verified, i only see php-5.1.2 and pear-1.4.6 on the beta
> channel, but i know php-5.1.6 is available as we use it in my company)
> but without support AFAIK.

I've checked. In fact only php-5.1.2 and pear-1.4.6 available on RHEL in
the "Red Hat Web Application Stack" channel.

Remi.