====== Creating PEAR and PECL Debian packages ======

If you use Debian's PHP packages it makes sense to install additional packages from [[http://pecl.php.net|PECL]] and [[http://pear.php.net|PEAR]] as Debian packages as well.

Here is how to create such a package. We will install the [[http://www.php.net/runkit|runkit]] extension which is needed for some of [[wiki:DokuWiki]]'s [[wiki:unittesting|Unit Tests]].


  #> apt-get install dh-make-php php4-pear php4-dev php5-dev fakeroot

First get the sources with ''pear download'':

  $> pear download runkit
  File runkit-0.7.tgz downloaded (41683 bytes)

Now use ''dh-make-pecl'' to unpack and create the directory structure needed for the Debian build tools. The options defines the maintainer set in the package description.

  $> dh-make-pecl --maintainer 'Andreas Gohr <andi@splitbrain.org>' runkit-0.7.tgz

If you want you can modify the package description in ''php-runkit-0.7/debian/control'' befor building the package.

  $> cd php-runkit-0.7
  $> dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot
  $> cd ..

You now have a Debian Package for your extension.

For the lazy people the packages of runkit 0.7 are available [[http://dev.splitbrain.org/browse/stuff|here]].