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-# Copyright 1999-2018 Gentoo Foundation
-# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
-
-# @DEAD
-# @ECLASS: php-pear-r1.eclass
-# @MAINTAINER:
-# Gentoo PHP Team <php-bugs@gentoo.org>
-# @AUTHOR:
-# Author: Tal Peer <coredumb@gentoo.org>
-# Author: Luca Longinotti <chtekk@gentoo.org>
-# @BLURB: Provides means for an easy installation of PEAR packages.
-# @DESCRIPTION:
-# This eclass provides means for an easy installation of PEAR packages.
-# For more information on PEAR, see http://pear.php.net/
-# Note that this eclass doesn't handle dependencies of PEAR packages
-# on purpose; please use (R)DEPEND to define them correctly!
-
-inherit multilib
-
-EXPORT_FUNCTIONS pkg_setup src_install
-
-case "${EAPI:-0}" in
-	0|1|2|3|4)
-		PHP_DEPEND="dev-lang/php"
-		;;
-	5|6)
-		# Repoman will complain about the missing slot in newer EAPIs.
-		PHP_DEPEND="dev-lang/php:*"
-		;;
-	*)
-		die "Unsupported EAPI=${EAPI} (unknown) for ${ECLASS}"
-		;;
-esac
-
-DEPEND="${PHP_DEPEND}
-	 >=dev-php/pear-1.8.1"
-RDEPEND="${DEPEND}"
-
-# @ECLASS-VARIABLE: PHP_PEAR_PKG_NAME
-# @DESCRIPTION:
-# Set this if the the PEAR package name differs from ${PN/PEAR-/}
-# (generally shouldn't be the case).
-[[ -z "${PHP_PEAR_PKG_NAME}" ]] && PHP_PEAR_PKG_NAME="${PN/PEAR-/}"
-
-fix_PEAR_PV() {
-	local tmp="${PV}"
-	tmp="${tmp/_/}"
-	tmp="${tmp/rc/RC}"
-	tmp="${tmp/beta/b}"
-	tmp="${tmp/alpha/a}"
-	PEAR_PV="${tmp}"
-}
-
-# @ECLASS-VARIABLE: PEAR_PV
-# @DESCRIPTION:
-# Set in ebuild if the eclass ${PV} mangling breaks SRC_URI for alpha/beta/rc versions
-[[ -z "${PEAR_PV}" ]] && fix_PEAR_PV
-
-PEAR_PN="${PHP_PEAR_PKG_NAME}-${PEAR_PV}"
-: ${PHP_PEAR_URI:=pear.php.net}
-: ${PHP_PEAR_CHANNEL:=${FILESDIR}/channel.xml}
-
-[[ -z "${SRC_URI}" ]] && SRC_URI="http://${PHP_PEAR_URI}/get/${PEAR_PN}.tgz"
-[[ -z "${HOMEPAGE}" ]] && HOMEPAGE="http://${PHP_PEAR_URI}/${PHP_PEAR_PKG_NAME}"
-
-S="${WORKDIR}/${PEAR_PN}"
-
-# @FUNCTION: php-pear-lib-r1_pkg_setup
-# @DESCRIPTION:
-# Adds required PEAR channel if necessary
-php-pear-r1_pkg_setup() {
-	if [[ -f $PHP_PEAR_CHANNEL ]]; then
-		pear channel-add $PHP_PEAR_CHANNEL || einfo "Ignore any errors about existing channels"
-	fi
-}
-
-# @FUNCTION: php-pear-r1_src_install
-# @DESCRIPTION:
-# Takes care of standard install for PEAR packages.
-php-pear-r1_src_install() {
-	# SNMP support
-	addpredict /usr/share/snmp/mibs/.index
-	addpredict /var/lib/net-snmp/
-	addpredict /var/lib/net-snmp/mib_indexes
-	addpredict /session_mm_cli0.sem
-
-	PHP_BIN="/usr/bin/php"
-
-	cd "${S}"
-
-	# metadata_dir needs to be set relative to ${D} for >=dev-php/PEAR-PEAR-1.10
-	if [[ -f "${WORKDIR}"/package2.xml ]] ; then
-		mv -f "${WORKDIR}/package2.xml" "${S}"
-		if has_version '>=dev-php/PEAR-PEAR-1.7.0' ; then
-			local WWW_DIR="/usr/share/webapps/${PN}/${PVR}/htdocs"
-			peardev -d php_bin="${PHP_BIN}" -d www_dir="${WWW_DIR}" -d metadata_dir="/usr/share/php" \
-				install --force --loose --nodeps --offline --packagingroot="${D}" \
-				"${S}/package2.xml" || die "Unable to install PEAR package"
-		else
-			peardev -d php_bin="${PHP_BIN}" install --force --loose --nodeps --offline --packagingroot="${D}" \
-				"${S}/package2.xml" || die "Unable to install PEAR package"
-		fi
-	else
-		mv -f "${WORKDIR}/package.xml" "${S}"
-		if has_version '>=dev-php/PEAR-PEAR-1.7.0' ; then
-			local WWW_DIR="/usr/share/webapps/${PN}/${PVR}/htdocs"
-			peardev -d php_bin="${PHP_BIN}" -d www_dir="${WWW_DIR}" -d metadata_dir="/usr/share/php" \
-				install --force --loose --nodeps --offline --packagingroot="${D}" \
-				"${S}/package.xml" || die "Unable to install PEAR package"
-		else
-			peardev -d php_bin="${PHP_BIN}" install --force --loose --nodeps --offline --packagingroot="${D}" \
-				"${S}/package.xml" || die "Unable to install PEAR package"
-		fi
-	fi
-
-	rm -Rf "${D}/usr/share/php/.channels" \
-	"${D}/usr/share/php/.depdblock" \
-	"${D}/usr/share/php/.depdb" \
-	"${D}/usr/share/php/.filemap" \
-	"${D}/usr/share/php/.lock" \
-	"${D}/usr/share/php/.registry"
-}