Description: ------------ If you installing a package from a local archive and your system doesn't not have a route to a pear web-site it takes a long time to spit any status message, even the one displayed in "Actual result". It took about 2-3 minutes. Why pear have to access internet to install local package? Is it already turned spyware? =) Test script: --------------- C:\PHP>pear.bat install Image_Canvas-0.2.2.tgz Actual result: -------------- Skipping package "pear/Image_Canvas", already installed as version 0.2.2 No valid packages found install failed

wrong bug title You do understand how pear works, right? it contacts the internet to determine the dependencies to download/install, and which version

this bug will be deferred to PEAR 1.4.4

No, I do not understand how it works, because AFAIK you do not have a description or scheme of this process. In any case 2 minutes for a ping timeout is a bad behavior. Dependencies should be included in package.xml, shouldn't they?

Thank you for taking the time to write to us, but this is not a bug. better summary

not bogus

This bug has been fixed in CVS. If this was a documentation problem, the fix will appear on pear.php.net by the end of next Sunday (CET). If this was a problem with the pear.php.net website, the change should be live shortly. Otherwise, the fix will appear in the package's next release. Thank you for the report and for helping us make PEAR better.

Thank god it was not considered bogus. At first comment I thought it was a revenge. =) BTW, how about to decrease server ping timeout? (sorry, I do not have time to study the code)