[php-maint] Bug#546164: php-pear: refuses to install anything

[Federico Gimenez Nieto]

Package: php-pear
Version: 5.2.10.dfsg.1-2.2
Severity: normal

Hi,

Having a package like [1] unpacked at /home/fgimenez/php-net-sieve, the command

  pear install -O /home/fgimenez/php-net-sieve/NET_Sieve-1.1.7/package.xml

gives:

  download directory "/home/aba/php5-5.2.10.dfsg.1/pear-build-download" is not writeable.  Change download_dir config variable to a writeable dir
  Cannot download non-local package "/home/fgimenez/php-net-sieve/NET_Sieve-1.1.7/package.xml"
  install failed

This prevents also the building of pear packages (tested with cdbs and dh-make-php, probably with debhelper).

Cheers,
Federico

[1] http://download.pear.php.net/package/Net_Sieve-1.1.7.tgz

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.30-1-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages php-pear depends on:
ii  php5-cli               5.2.10.dfsg.1-2.2 command-line interpreter for the p
ii  php5-common            5.2.10.dfsg.1-2.2 Common files for packages built fr

Versions of packages php-pear recommends:
ii  gnupg                         1.4.10-1   GNU privacy guard - a free PGP rep

Versions of packages php-pear suggests:
pn  php5-dev | php4-dev           <none>     (no description available)

-- no debconf information