Broken Go-Pear, Grab it Again

Today I needed to install PEAR again on my machine and was surprised when it failed to install PEAR itself. I have the latest PHP4 installed v4.4.4 if someone can explain me the error message cause I didn’t understand it :

<br /> Loading zlib: ok<br /> Using local package: PEAR-stable……ok<br /> Using local package: Archive_Tar-stable….ok<br /> Using local package: Console_Getopt-stable….ok<br /> Using local package: XML_RPC-stable….ok<br /> Bootstrapping: PEAR……………….(remote) </p> <p><!-- ViewVC :: http://www.viewvc.org/ --></p> <p><title>ViewVC Exception</title></p> <h3>An Exception Has Occurred</h3> <h4>Python Traceback</h4> <p><pre> Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/local/viewvc-1.1-dev/lib/viewvc.py", line 3623, in main request.run_viewvc() File "/usr/local/viewvc-1.1-dev/lib/viewvc.py", line 388, in run_viewvc self.view_func(self) File "/usr/local/viewvc-1.1-dev/lib/viewvc.py", line 2122, in view_checkout fp, revision = request.repos.openfile(path, rev) File "/usr/local/viewvc-1.1-dev/lib/vclib/bincvs/__init__.py", line 134, in op enfile filename, revision = _parse_co_header(fp) File "/usr/local/viewvc-1.1-dev/lib/vclib/bincvs/__init__.py", line 549, in _p arse_co_header raise COMalformedOutput, "Unable to find revision in co output stream" COMalformedOutput: Unable to find revision in co output stream </pre> </p> <p>ok<br />

The solution was go-pear, without the www. Download the latest version available on server and update then install again. It should work fine, I was just wondering why all other packages installed correctly except the main PEAR package ?

The second issue I faced today was installing the SOAP package, easy :

pear install –alldeps SOAP

But here is what the pear installer return :

Failed to download pear/SOAP within preferred state “stable”, latest release is version 0.9.4, stability “beta”, use “channel://pear.php.net/SOAP-0.9.4” to install Cannot initialize ‘SOAP’, invalid or missing package file Package “SOAP” is not valid install failed

Ok so SOAP package is still in beta, no if I want to install it anyway :

pear install –alldeps SOAP-0.9.4

It install SOAP package correctly with all its dependencies, except for NET_DIME and for the same reason. The package still in beta ! If I requested to install a beta package, I don’t mind if a dependency is available in beta too. Anyway Greg Beaver when he wrote The PEAR Installer Manifesto, I think he did the right thing to make a great resource available while working with the PEAR installer. A bon entendeur.