An increasing number of PHP software packages, libraries and whole programs are distributed via pear packages. Some of them, but numbers are increasing, make use of <tasks:replace> tags which modify pear files. Often these modified files have the relocated pear paths inside rpm buildroot written to the replacement position and an increasing number of spec files include sed statements to get rid of them once again. I have not yet found a cleaner solution to this problem. Another difficulty with 3rd party pear channels is that they require relatively new pear installer versions for no real reasons. This breaks building these packages on In one instance, a package wanted a newer version of pear that present in factory. I patched the requirement line down a few version numbers and then it just worked. Still, some packages really use pear features that just did not ship with older PHP as present in SLES & friends. Pear is at the moment maintained as a sub package of php5. Maybe it would make sense to have a separate, decoupled version of pear in server:php:applications. This provides an upgrade option without update of the php5 interpreter (which would break binary compatibility with everything linked against it). pear itself is noarch. Any suggestions are welcome. -- Ralf Lang Linux Consultant / Developer B1 Systems GmbH Osterfeldstraße 7 / 85088 Vohburg / http://www.b1-systems.de GF: Ralph Dehner / Unternehmenssitz: Vohburg / AG: Ingolstadt,HRB 3537 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-packaging+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-packaging+help(a)opensuse.org