PEAR Magazine: 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 :

Loading zlib: ok
Using local package: PEAR-stable......ok
Using local package: Archive_Tar-stable....ok
Using local package: Console_Getopt-stable....ok
Using local package: XML_RPC-stable....ok
Bootstrapping: PEAR...................(remote) <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DT
D XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">

<head>
<title>ViewVC Exception</title>
</head>
<body>
<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>
</body>
</html>
ok

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.

Broken Go-Pear, Grab it Again

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