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Re: PEAR packages - how to repackage?



On Thu, Jun 30, 2005 at 02:44:49PM -0400, Charles Fry wrote:
> > When I created my dh-make-php scripts for pecl and pear I had similar
> > thoughts, but finally decided to take the original pear/pecl package,
> > unpack in, move it to php[4]-(pearname|peclname)-version
> > e.g. ps-1.3.1 -> php4-ps-1.3.1 and copy the package.xml file into that
> > directory. This slightly modified directory is what I called .orig.tar.gz
> > although it is not quite right. Updating through uupdate isn't possible
> > unless uupdate can be customized somehow and take a different approach
> > for an update.
> 
> I like your idea of creating a custom uupdate. uupdate-pear or something
> like that.
> 
> Having played around with other options, I guess I do agree with the
> approach that your dh-make scripts take, I was just trying to figure out
> a clean way to handle updates.
> 
> But if we had a uupdate-pear to complement your dh-make-pear, then we
> would be in business. :-)
I'll have a look at uupdate. Maybe it can be used as a basis for
uupdate-pear. On the other hand, we have a very special case that
needs to be handled by uupdate-pear. It may be easier to hack up
something new.

   Uwe

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