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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-1.7.1.ebuild,v 1.3 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="${PV}"
+
+KEYWORDS="~alpha ~amd64 ~arm ~hppa ~ia64 ~ppc ~ppc64 ~s390 ~sh ~sparc ~x86"
+
+DESCRIPTION="PEAR Base System (PEAR, Archive_Tar, Console_Getopt, Structures_Graph, XML_RPC)."
+HOMEPAGE="http://pear.php.net/"
+SRC_URI="http://pear.php.net/get/Archive_Tar-${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=""
+
+DEPEND="dev-lang/php
+	!dev-php/pear
+	!dev-php/PEAR-Archive_Tar
+	!dev-php/PEAR-Console_Getopt
+	!dev-php/PEAR-Structures_Graph
+	!dev-php/PEAR-XML_RPC"
+RDEPEND="${DEPEND}"
+
+S=${WORKDIR}
+
+pkg_setup() {
+	has_php
+
+	# we check that PHP was compiled with the correct USE flags
+	if [[ ${PHP_VERSION} == "4" ]] ; then
+		require_php_with_use cli pcre expat zlib
+	else
+		require_php_with_use cli pcre xml zlib
+	fi
+
+	[[ -z "${PEAR_CACHEDIR}" ]] && PEAR_CACHEDIR="/var/cache/pear"
+	[[ -z "${PEAR_DOWNLOADDIR}" ]] && PEAR_DOWNLOADDIR="/var/tmp/pear"
+	[[ -z "${PEAR_TEMPDIR}" ]] && PEAR_TEMPDIR="/tmp"
+
+	elog
+	elog "cache_dir is set to: ${PEAR_CACHEDIR}"
+	elog "download_dir is set to: ${PEAR_DOWNLOADDIR}"
+	elog "temp_dir is set to: ${PEAR_TEMPDIR}"
+	elog
+	elog "If you want to change the above values, you need to set"
+	elog "PEAR_CACHEDIR, PEAR_DOWNLOADDIR and PEAR_TEMPDIR variable(s)"
+	elog "accordingly in /etc/make.conf and re-emerge ${PN}."
+	elog
+}
+
+src_install() {
+	# Prevent SNMP related sandbox violoation.
+	addpredict /usr/share/snmp/mibs/.index
+	addpredict /var/lib/net-snmp/
+
+	# install PEAR package
+	cd "${S}"/PEAR-${PEAR}
+
+	insinto /usr/share/php
+	doins -r PEAR/
+	doins -r OS/
+	doins PEAR.php System.php
+	doins scripts/pearcmd.php
+	doins scripts/peclcmd.php
+
+	newbin scripts/pear.sh pear
+	newbin scripts/peardev.sh peardev
+	newbin scripts/pecl.sh pecl
+
+	# install Archive_Tar package
+	cd "${S}"/Archive_Tar-${ARCHIVE_TAR}
+	insinto /usr/share/php
+	doins -r Archive/
+
+	# install Console_Getopt package.
+	cd "${S}"/Console_Getopt-${CONSOLE_GETOPT}
+	insinto /usr/share/php
+	doins -r Console/
+
+	# install Structures_Graph package
+	cd "${S}"/Structures_Graph-${STRUCTURES_GRAPH}
+	insinto /usr/share/php
+	doins -r Structures/
+
+	# install XML_RPC package
+	cd "${S}"/XML_RPC-${XML_RPC}
+	insinto /usr/share/php/XML
+	doins RPC.php
+	insinto /usr/share/php/XML/RPC
+	doins Dump.php Server.php
+
+	# adjust some scripts for current version
+	for i in pearcmd.php peclcmd.php ; do
+		dosed "s:@pear_version@:${PEAR}:g" /usr/share/php/${i}
+	done
+
+	for i in pear peardev pecl ; do
+		dosed "s:@php_bin@:${PHPCLI}:g" /usr/bin/${i}
+		dosed "s:@bin_dir@:/usr/bin:g" /usr/bin/${i}
+		dosed "s:@php_dir@:/usr/share/php:g" /usr/bin/${i}
+	done
+	dosed "s:-d output_buffering=1:-d output_buffering=1 -d memory_limit=32M:g" /usr/bin/pear
+
+	dosed "s:@package_version@:${PEAR}:g" /usr/share/php/PEAR/Command/Package.php
+	dosed "s:@PEAR-VER@:${PEAR}:g" /usr/share/php/PEAR/Dependency2.php
+	dosed "s:@PEAR-VER@:${PEAR}:g" /usr/share/php/PEAR/PackageFile/Parser/v1.php
+	dosed "s:@PEAR-VER@:${PEAR}:g" /usr/share/php/PEAR/PackageFile/Parser/v2.php
+
+	# finalize install
+	insinto /etc
+	newins "${FILESDIR}"/pear.conf-r1 pear.conf
+	dosed "s|s:PHPCLILEN:\"PHPCLI\"|s:${#PHPCLI}:\"${PHPCLI}\"|g" /etc/pear.conf
+	dosed "s|s:CACHEDIRLEN:\"CACHEDIR\"|s:${#PEAR_CACHEDIR}:\"${PEAR_CACHEDIR}\"|g" /etc/pear.conf
+	dosed "s|s:DOWNLOADDIRLEN:\"DOWNLOADDIR\"|s:${#PEAR_DOWNLOADDIR}:\"${PEAR_DOWNLOADDIR}\"|g" /etc/pear.conf
+	dosed "s|s:TEMPDIRLEN:\"TEMPDIR\"|s:${#PEAR_TEMPDIR}:\"${PEAR_TEMPDIR}\"|g" /etc/pear.conf
+
+	[[ "${PEAR_TEMPDIR}" != "/tmp" ]] && keepdir "${PEAR_TEMPDIR}"
+	keepdir "${PEAR_CACHEDIR}"
+	diropts -m1777
+	keepdir "${PEAR_DOWNLOADDIR}"
+}
+
+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
+	local 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 pear.zeronotice.org
+			pear.phpontrax.com pear.agavi.org"
+
+	for chan in ${pearchans} ; do
+		pear channel-discover ${chan}
+		pear channel-update ${chan}
+	done
+}