[Fedora-php-devel-list] Pear in EL-4

[Brandon Holbrook]

All, it doesn't look like anyone has attempted to branch their pear 
packages for EL-4.  I received a request recently for Mail_Mime to be 
included in EL-4 as a dependency for roundcube 
(https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=225575).  However, 
I am quickly finding out this isn't just a simple branch-and-build.  It 
looks like the php-pear package in core is still arch-specific and built 
from php's srpm... which puts up major roadblocks for making pear 
packages noarch and dependent on the rpm-version of PEAR instead of PHP.

Has anyone attempted to build pear packages on top of EL-4's existing 
pear package?  Would it (ideally) be possible to build a new 
php-pear.noarch RPM as part of epel?  There is already a 1.4.11 RPM in 
the centosplus repo that is exactly what we need.  If not, we need to 
decided on a new pear policy for EL4, either no pear packages or craft a 
new arch-specific spec file template.

-Brandon