dh-make-pear(1)

NAME

dh-make-pear - Create debian source packages from pear modules

SYNOPSIS

dh-make-pear [--help ] [--version ] [--arch any | all]
             [--depends DEPENDS] [--maintainer MAINTAINER]
             [--prefix PREFIX] [--templatedir TEMPLATEDIR] [PACKAGE]

DESCRIPTION

This manual page documents briefly the dh-make-pear command.

dh-make-pear creates the files required to build a debian source package from a PHP extension as it is distributed through PEAR.

The last parameter passed to dh-make-pear can be either the .tgz archive containing the php extension or the name of the extension. In
the second case dh-make-pear will first download the archive from http://pear.php.net. If dh-make-pear downloads the archive itself, it will always take the most recent version.

dh-make-pear will by default create a directory named php-<pear-package-name> which will contain the debian files and the
unpacked files from the extension. It will also create a symlink
php-<pear-package-name>_<version>.orig.tar.gz pointing towards the
original source. After creating the files you can go into then new
directory and build the debian package with dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot.

dh-make-pear tries to extract as much information about the package from the file package.xml which is part of the pear extension.

Debian source packages created by dh-make-pear can later easily be updated with uscan.

OPTIONS

These programs follow the usual GNU command line syntax, with long
options starting with two dashes (`-´). A summary of options is
included below. For a complete description, see the Info files.

-h --help

Show summary of options.

-v --version

Show version of program.

--arch

Set architecture of created debian source package to ´any´ or
´all´. Defaults to ´all´.

--depends

Adds more packages to Depends: beside php-pear.

--prefix

Sets prefix of debian source package name. Each name ends in
´<pear-package-name>´. Defaults to ´php-´.

--maintainer

Explicitly sets the maintainer. In most cases it will be propperly guessed by reading some of the environment variables.

--templatedir

Use a different directory with templates for the debian files.
Defaults to /usr/share/dh-make-php/pear.template.

ENVIRONMENT

DEBFULLNAME - get the real name of the maintainer

LOGNAME or USER - get the username

DEBEMAIL or EMAIL - get the email address of the user

SEE ALSO

dh-make-pecl (1).

AUTHOR

This manual page was written by Uwe Steinmann <steinm@debian.org>.
Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document
under the terms of the GNU General Public License, Version 2 any later version published by the Free Software Foundation.

On Debian systems, the complete text of the GNU General Public License can be found in /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL.

AUTHOR

UWE STEINMANN

Author.

COPYRIGHT

Copyright © 2004 Uwe Steinmann

August 05, 2005 DH-MAKE-PEAR(1)