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NAME

       debpear - automatically builds and installs PEAR packages as Debian packages

SYNOPSIS

       debpear [options] <pear-package-name>

DESCRIPTION

       debpear  is  a tool to automatically create and build a Debian package out of a PHP PEAR package. It will
       download the PEAR package from pear.php.net, then by looking into it,  create  the  corresponding  Debian
       package, and eventually also installs it.

PARAMETERS

       <pear-package-name>

              Defines  the PEAR package name you want to install, as seen on the http://pear.php.net/ site. Make
              sure respect the case in the name of the package (for example: Package_NAME).

OPTIONS

       --build-dir|-b

              Specify the directory where the Debian package will be built.

       --verbose|-v

              Makes debpear more verbose.

       --channel|-c channel-alias

              Specify the channel-alias which provide from the pear-channels package, pear and pecl channel.

       --tarball|-t tarball --pkg-version|-pv pkg-version [ --wget|-w URL ]

              Do not use "pear download" to optain the PEAR package from upstream authors.  Instead, use tarball
              and  use  pkg-version  when  building  the package.  Eventually also download the tarball from URL
              using wget before building.

       --install|-i

              Install the resulting debian package in your system. Note that  you  must  be  root  to  use  this
              option. If you aren't root, then debpear will try to get root using sudo.

EXAMPLE

       debpear -i Auth_RADIUS

              This  will create a php-auth-radius package in ./build-area, and automatically install it. Because
              it's written in the package.xml shipped with Auth_RADIUS  at  pear.php.net,  php-auth-radius  will
              depend on php5-radius.

       debpear -t current.tgz -pv 1.3.1 -w http://downloads.jasig.org/cas-clients/php/current.tgz CAS

              Downloads  cas-clients from http://downloads.jasig.org/cas-clients/php/current.tgz, as current.tgz
              in the current directory, then builds it as  if  it  was  downloaded  as  CAS-1.3.1.tgz  by  "pear
              download".

       debpear -c pecl gnupg

              This will create a php-gnupg package from the pecl.php.net channel.

       debpear -c phpunit DbUnit

              This will create a php-dbunit package from the pear.phpunit.de channel.

IMPORTANT

              Note  that  the debian/copyright file generated by debpear isn't good enough for redistribution of
              the created packages. You should carefuly review the PEAR package license before doing  so.  Also,
              debpear  has  been  created  for  convenience,  but  it  will  never replace the manual work of an
              experienced Debian maintainer for creating PEAR packages. It can, however, be  used  to  create  a
              template  package  quickly,  before a careful review, in order to save time building a Debian PEAR
              package.

AUTHORS

              debpear has been written by Thomas Goirand <zigo@debian.org>, and is maintained inside the PKG PHP
              PEAR Debian team, that can be reached at: <pkg-php-pear@lists.alioth.debian.org>.

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