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Re: PEAR packages - how to repackage?



> I wonder how original PEAR packages should be repackaged into *.orig.tar.gz. 
> In fact there is no original package anymore so it shouldn't be contains 
> "orig". Another thing: there is no easy way to produce the newer "orig" 
> archive so uupdate won't work.
> 
> My proposition is to package i.e. DB-1.7.6.tgz into php-db_1.7.6_orig.tar.gz:
> 
> drwxr-xr-x dexter/dexter     0 2005-06-30 15:23:06 php-db-1.7.6.orig/
> -rw-r--r-- dexter/dexter 124807 2005-06-30 15:23:06 
> php-db-1.7.6.orig/DB-1.7.6.tgz
> 
> So *.orig.tar.gz contains really original archive with the same md5 hash as 
> PEAR package. The update from upstream is easy - in fact I need to run `pear 
> download DB' in the new `php-db-1.7.7.orig' directory if DB-1.7.7 will 
> appear.
> 
> What do you think?

I am against the inclusion of the original archive in the *.orig.tar.gz.

Of the other options I have seen used, my preference is to simply copy
(or rename) the original archive to *.orig.tar.gz.

I do think that per previous posts I have made, it would be most helpful
to come up with a standard PEAR packaging policy that dealt with this
and the other unique packaging issues which PEAR modules introduce.

Charles

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