[CCing Ales as the maintainer of the pear packages] Marcus Hüwe wrote: > Now if you install a (suse) php-pear-* rpm package the pear packagemanager > doesn't know that this certain packages is installed.
Yes, the pear packages leave much room for improvement. And yes, I admit authorship of the current spec files :-) > What about registering this package by the pear packagemanager too? > For example the following could be added to the spec files: > > %post > # make the package known to the pear-packagemanager > pear install --nodeps --register-only PACKAGE.xml Good idea. > %postun > # remove the package from the pear-packagemanager > pear uninstall --nodeps --register-only PACKAGE I'd wrap it with 'if test -x /usr/bin/pear; then ... fi', because rpm doesn't implement ordering of packages during uninstallation. > But this maybe leads to some problems too. > One possible problem could be that the user removes the pear-package via the > pear commandline tool but the package still exists in the rpm database..?! I think this is a generic problem, it would be interesting to see how/whether is it solved in cpan or gems. Darix, Anicka, are you there? ;-) Michal --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
