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+# Copyright 1999-2009 Gentoo Foundation
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+# $Header: /var/cvsroot/gentoo-x86/dev-php/PEAR-PEAR/PEAR-PEAR-1.6.1.ebuild,v 1.11 2009/09/23 02:41:50 beandog Exp $
+
+inherit depend.php
+
+ARCHIVE_TAR="1.3.2"
+CONSOLE_GETOPT="1.2.3"
+STRUCTURES_GRAPH="1.0.2"
+XML_RPC="1.5.1"
+PEAR="1.6.1"
+
+[[ -z "${PEAR_CACHEDIR}" ]] && PEAR_CACHEDIR="/var/cache/pear"
+
+KEYWORDS="alpha amd64 arm hppa ia64 ppc ppc64 s390 sh sparc x86"
+
+DESCRIPTION="PEAR Base System (PEAR, Archive_Tar, Console_Getopt, Structures_Graph, XML_RPC)."
+HOMEPAGE="http://pear.php.net/"
+SRC_URI="http://pear.php.net/get/Archive_Tar-${ARCHIVE_TAR}.tgz
+		http://pear.php.net/get/Console_Getopt-${CONSOLE_GETOPT}.tgz
+		http://pear.php.net/get/Structures_Graph-${STRUCTURES_GRAPH}.tgz
+		http://pear.php.net/get/XML_RPC-${XML_RPC}.tgz
+		http://pear.php.net/get/PEAR-${PEAR}.tgz"
+LICENSE="LGPL-2.1 PHP-2.02 PHP-3 PHP-3.01 MIT"
+SLOT="0"
+IUSE=""
+
+# we deliberately force people to remove their old PEAR installations,
+# and any package which may have put an old-style PEAR installation onto
+# their box
+# we also depend on a recent sandbox version to mitigate problems users
+# have been experiencing
+
+DEPEND="dev-lang/php
+	!dev-php/php
+	!dev-php/php-cgi
+	!dev-php/mod_php
+	!<dev-php/PEAR-PEAR-1.3.6-r2
+	!dev-php/PEAR-Archive_Tar
+	!dev-php/PEAR-Console_Getopt
+	!dev-php/PEAR-XML_RPC
+	>=sys-apps/sandbox-1.2.17
+	!dev-php/pear
+	!dev-php/PEAR-Archive_Tar
+	!dev-php/PEAR-Console_Getopt
+	!dev-php/PEAR-Structures_Graph
+	!dev-php/PEAR-XML_RPC"
+RDEPEND="${DEPEND}"
+
+pkg_setup() {
+	# we call this here, to ensure that the eclass picks the right
+	# version of php for the job
+	require_php_cli
+
+	# we check that PHP was compiled with the correct USE flags
+	if [[ ${PHP_VERSION} == "4" ]] ; then
+		require_php_with_use cli pcre expat zlib
+	else
+		require_php_with_use cli pcre xml zlib
+	fi
+}
+
+src_install() {
+	require_php_cli
+
+	# Prevent SNMP related sandbox violoation.
+	addpredict /usr/share/snmp/mibs/.index
+	addpredict /var/lib/net-snmp/
+
+	mkdir -p "${WORKDIR}/PEAR/XML/RPC"
+
+	# Install PEAR Package.
+	cp -r "${WORKDIR}/PEAR-${PEAR}/OS" "${WORKDIR}/PEAR/"
+	cp -r "${WORKDIR}/PEAR-${PEAR}/PEAR" "${WORKDIR}/PEAR/"
+	cp "${WORKDIR}/PEAR-${PEAR}/PEAR.php" "${WORKDIR}/PEAR/PEAR.php"
+	cp "${WORKDIR}/PEAR-${PEAR}/System.php" "${WORKDIR}/PEAR/System.php"
+
+	# Prepare /usr/bin/pear script.
+	cp "${WORKDIR}/PEAR-${PEAR}/scripts/pearcmd.php" "${WORKDIR}/PEAR/pearcmd.php"
+	sed -i "s:@pear_version@:${PEAR}:g" "${WORKDIR}/PEAR/pearcmd.php" || die "sed failed"
+	cp "${WORKDIR}/PEAR-${PEAR}/scripts/pear.sh" "${WORKDIR}/PEAR/pear"
+	sed -i "s:@php_bin@:${PHPCLI}:g" "${WORKDIR}/PEAR/pear" || die "sed failed"
+	sed -i "s:@bin_dir@:/usr/bin:g" "${WORKDIR}/PEAR/pear" || die "sed failed"
+	sed -i "s:@php_dir@:/usr/share/php:g" "${WORKDIR}/PEAR/pear" || die "sed failed"
+	sed -i "s:-d output_buffering=1:-d output_buffering=1 -d memory_limit=32M:g" "${WORKDIR}/PEAR/pear" || die "sed failed"
+
+	# Prepare /usr/bin/peardev script.
+	cp "${WORKDIR}/PEAR-${PEAR}/scripts/peardev.sh" "${WORKDIR}/PEAR/peardev"
+	sed -i "s:@php_bin@:${PHPCLI}:g" "${WORKDIR}/PEAR/peardev" || die "sed failed"
+	sed -i "s:@bin_dir@:/usr/bin:g" "${WORKDIR}/PEAR/peardev" || die "sed failed"
+	sed -i "s:@php_dir@:/usr/share/php:g" "${WORKDIR}/PEAR/peardev" || die "sed failed"
+
+	# Prepare /usr/bin/pecl script.
+	cp "${WORKDIR}/PEAR-${PEAR}/scripts/peclcmd.php" "${WORKDIR}/PEAR/peclcmd.php"
+	sed -i "s:@pear_version@:${PEAR}:g" "${WORKDIR}/PEAR/peclcmd.php" || die "sed failed"
+	cp "${WORKDIR}/PEAR-${PEAR}/scripts/pecl.sh" "${WORKDIR}/PEAR/pecl"
+	sed -i "s:@php_bin@:${PHPCLI}:g" "${WORKDIR}/PEAR/pecl" || die "sed failed"
+	sed -i "s:@bin_dir@:/usr/bin:g" "${WORKDIR}/PEAR/pecl" || die "sed failed"
+	sed -i "s:@php_dir@:/usr/share/php:g" "${WORKDIR}/PEAR/pecl" || die "sed failed"
+
+	# Prepare PEAR/Dependency2.php.
+	sed -i "s:@PEAR-VER@:${PEAR}:g" "${WORKDIR}/PEAR/PEAR/Dependency2.php" || die "sed failed"
+
+	# Install Archive_Tar Package.
+	cp -r "${WORKDIR}/Archive_Tar-${ARCHIVE_TAR}/Archive" "${WORKDIR}/PEAR/"
+
+	# Install Console_Getopt Package.
+	cp -r "${WORKDIR}/Console_Getopt-${CONSOLE_GETOPT}/Console" "${WORKDIR}/PEAR/"
+
+	# Install Structures_Graph Package.
+	cp -r "${WORKDIR}/Structures_Graph-${STRUCTURES_GRAPH}/Structures" "${WORKDIR}/PEAR/"
+
+	# Install XML_RPC Package.
+	cp "${WORKDIR}/XML_RPC-${XML_RPC}/RPC.php" "${WORKDIR}/PEAR/XML/RPC.php"
+	cp "${WORKDIR}/XML_RPC-${XML_RPC}/Server.php" "${WORKDIR}/PEAR/XML/RPC/Server.php"
+
+	# Finalize installation.
+	cd "${WORKDIR}/PEAR"
+	insinto /usr/share/php
+	doins -r Archive Console OS PEAR Structures XML *.php
+	dobin pear peardev pecl
+
+	insinto /etc
+	doins "${FILESDIR}/pear.conf"
+	sed -e "s|s:PHPCLILEN:\"PHPCLI\"|s:${#PHPCLI}:\"${PHPCLI}\"|g" -i "${D}/etc/pear.conf" || die "sed failed"
+	sed -e "s|s:CACHEDIRLEN:\"CACHEDIR\"|s:${#PEAR_CACHEDIR}:\"${PEAR_CACHEDIR}\"|g" -i "${D}/etc/pear.conf" || die "sed failed"
+
+	keepdir "${PEAR_CACHEDIR}"
+	fperms 755 "${PEAR_CACHEDIR}"
+}
+
+pkg_preinst() {
+	rm -f "${ROOT}/etc/pear.conf"
+}
+
+pkg_postinst() {
+	pear clear-cache
+
+	# Update PEAR/PECL channels as needed, add new ones to the list if needed
+	pearchans="pear.php.net pecl.php.net components.ez.no pear.phpdb.org pear.phing.info pear.symfony-project.com pear.phpunit.de pear.php-baustelle.de"
+
+	for chan in ${pearchans} ; do
+		pear channel-discover ${chan}
+		pear channel-update ${chan}
+	done
+}