Description: ------------ # pear -V PEAR Version: 1.5.0a1 PHP Version: 4.3.11 Zend Engine Version: 1.3.0 Running on: Linux ancilla.toggg.net 2.6.12-1.1381_FC3 #1 Fri Oct 21 03:46:55 EDT 2005 i686 # pear upgrade Console_Getargs Console_Table HTML_AJAX-alpha HTML_QuickForm_advmultiselect MDB_QueryTool PEAR_RemoteInstaller-alpha Services_Weather Text_Wiki_Mediawiki-alpha Did not download optional dependencies: pecl/ssh2, use --alldeps to download automatically pear/PEAR_RemoteInstaller requires PHP (version >= 5.0.0), installed version is 4.3.11 PHP Fatal error: Call to undefined function: getprovidesextension() in /usr/share/pear/PEAR/Downloader/Package.php on line 969 Fatal error: Call to undefined function: getprovidesextension() in /usr/share/pear/PEAR/Downloader/Package.php on line 969 I tried to upgrade partially to narrow which package was doing it: # pear upgrade Console_Getargs Console_Table HTML_AJAX-alpha HTML_QuickForm_advmultiselect MDB_QueryTool .... upgrade ok: channel://pear.php.net/Console_Table-1.0.4 upgrade ok: channel://pear.php.net/MDB_QueryTool-1.1.0 upgrade ok: channel://pear.php.net/HTML_QuickForm_advmultiselect-1.2.0 upgrade ok: channel://pear.php.net/HTML_AJAX-0.4.0 upgrade ok: channel://pear.php.net/Console_Getargs-1.3.1 # pear upgrade Text_Wiki_Mediawiki-alpha .... upgrade ok: channel://pear.php.net/Text_Wiki_Mediawiki-0.1.0 But then the error does not come back: # pear upgrade PEAR_RemoteInstaller-alpha Services_Weather Did not download optional dependencies: pecl/ssh2, use --alldeps to download automatically pear/PEAR_RemoteInstaller requires PHP (version >= 5.0.0), installed version is 4.3.11 pear/PEAR_RemoteInstaller can optionally use package "pecl/ssh2" pear/Services_Weather dependency package "pear/Net_FTP" installed version 1.3.2 is not the recommended version 1.3.1, but may be compatible, use --force to install pear/Services_Weather dependency package "pear/Cache" installed version 1.5.5RC4 is not the recommended version 1.5.4, but may be compatible, use --force to install pear/Services_Weather dependency package "pear/SOAP" installed version 0.9.3 is not the recommended version 0.9.1, but may be compatible, use --force to installNo valid packages found upgrade failed which is perfectly valid...

Thank you for taking the time to report a problem with the package. This problem may have been already fixed by a previous change that is in the CVS of the package. Please log into CVS with: cvs -d :pserver:cvsread@cvs.php.net:/repository login and check out the CVS repository of this package and upgrade cvs -d :pserver:cvsread@cvs.php.net:/repository co pear-core pear upgrade pear-core/package2.xml or pear upgrade pear-core/package.xml If you are able to reproduce the bug with the latest CVS, please change the status back to "Open". Again, thank you for your continued support of PEAR.

It's quite difficult to reproduce. As I tried to narrow it , I destroyed the case. Not sure it's possible for me to set it back. I admit the whole looks strange. Could that be related to some v1-v2 sequences in deps ?

I set it back open, do what you want with it.

this was caused by this sequence: PEAR_RemoteInstaller depends on pecl/ssh2 with this tag: <package> <name>ssh2</name> <channel>pecl.php.net</channel> <providesextension>ssh2</providesextension> </package> This prompts the installer to iterate over each of the detected packages, to check if any is the extension ssh2. Since one of them uses a package.xml 1.0, it causes the fatal error. Hence the patch did indeed fix this bug. :)

OK, I understand the case. Sorry , there was a time mismatch and the bug update came before the cvs update. Insanes often fall in traps :)