Install php-pear-PEAR_Command_Packaging package.
To prevent such messages on console:
WARNING: channel "pear.php.net" has updated its protocols, use "channel-update pear.php.net" to update
Run:
$ sudo pear channel-update pear.php.net Updating channel "pear.php.net" Update of Channel "pear.php.net" succeeded
Download tarball
$ pear download Text_Wiki_Cowiki Failed to download pear/Text_Wiki_Cowiki within preferred state "stable", latest release is version 0.0.2, stability "alpha", use "channel://pear.php.net/Text_Wiki_Cowiki-0.0.2" to install Cannot initialize 'Text_Wiki_Cowiki', invalid or missing package file Package "Text_Wiki_Cowiki" is not valid download failed
It might complain that the package is not in stable state, then force another state:
$ pear download Text_Wiki_Cowiki-alpha downloading Text_Wiki_Cowiki-0.0.2.tgz ... Starting to download Text_Wiki_Cowiki-0.0.2.tgz (23,915 bytes) ........done: 23,915 bytes File /home/glen/rpm/pld/SPECS/Text_Wiki_Cowiki-0.0.2.tgz downloaded
Now you can make PEAR to make the specfile:
$ pear make-rpm-spec Text_Wiki_Cowiki-0.0.2.tgz Wrote RPM spec file php-pear-Text_Wiki_Cowiki.spec
Filter, test, edit the created spec via:
$ ./pearize.sh php-pear-Text_Wiki_Cowiki.spec
Now cleanup the void rpm if statements (%if 0), test, check %dir and other %file section items, build and commit to CVS.
also worth running SPECS/rpmdb-checkdir.sh in /usr/share/pear after you've installed your new package to see if all dirs are owned properly.
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… and filter through ./pearize.sh script. of course verify the diffs it makes, as it is still not perfect.
Only php-pear-PEAR subpackages should depend on php-pear-PEAR, ohers should use just php-pear-PEAR-core dependency. of course you need to test to be sure that it is so.
For optional packages a textfile is created and output in %post. The optional packages are excluded from requirement using rpm macro _noautoreq defintion in spec.