[geeklog-devel] Re: pair Networks contact

[Tony Bibbs]

Duh...a light just went off in my head.

Archive/Tar.php is a PEAR moduels (http://pear.php.net).  Do you folks 
install PEAR on your servers?  We need to figure this out but Tar.php is 
the package that uncompresses Geeklog (i.e. we don't force your server to 
have tar installed).

Jason, should we have a little config option at the top of the file that 
let's ISP's point the script to their local copy of pear?  I'd even say we 
should first issue exec(`which tar`); and use the output if any to run 
tar, otherwise force them to get a copy of Tar.php.

this is a bit sticky, huh?  Jason, I'll refer to you for an exact 
solution.

--Tony

On Tue, 14 Jan 2003, Pat F wrote:

> Yes, it did download the geeklog-1.3.7-1.tar.gz to the correct directory.
> I am just guessing that it couldn't find the 'Archive/Tar.php' file
> because the geeklog-1.3.7-1.tar.gz file was never unpacked?
> 
> BTW - I used this command to run the script, in case it might help:
> 
> lynx -source http://newsgeeks.com/go-geeklog | /usr/www/cgi-bin/php4.cgi
> -q
> 
> -Patrick
> 
> 
> 
> On Tue, 14 Jan 2003, Tony Bibbs wrote:
> 
> > Nope, looks like you downloaded the package OK, you just don't have
> > Tar.php *or* the script can't find it.  I'll forward it on.  We should
> > have a new one for you yet today.
> >
> > --Tony
> >
> >  On Tue, 14 Jan 2003, Pat F wrote:
> >
> > > Tony,
> > >
> > > Yes, something like that is definitely the ticket.  However, I did get an
> > > error message:
> > >
> > > ...
> > >
> > > 1-9, 'all' or Enter to continue:
> > > HTTP proxy (host:port), or Enter for none:
> > >
> > > Downloading package: geeklog-1.3.7-1......ok
> > > Extracting package: geeklog-1.3.7-1.......<br />
> > > <b>Warning</b>:  Failed opening 'Archive/Tar.php' for inclusion
> > > (include_path='') in <b>-</b> on line <b>245</b><br />
> > > <br />
> > > <b>Fatal error</b>:  Cannot instantiate non-existent class:  archive_tar
> > > in <b>-</b> on line <b>246</b><br />
> > > bash-2.05$
> > >
> > >
> > > Not sure if not entering a HTTP proxy (host:port) was the problem or
> > > not...  can you guys figure out what went wrong?
> 

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