Publishing pecl channels to GitHub

Submitted by drewish on Thu, 2012-08-16 18:35

Install prium:

pear channel-discover pear.pirum-project.org
pear install pirum/Pirum

Create a pages repo. I did this as a separate checkout in a sibling directory:

git clone git@github.com:drewish/phpredis.git phpredis-channel
cd phpredis-channel
git checkout --orphan gh-pages
git rm -rf .

Configure the pirum.xml file then build the channel:

pirum build .

Add your channel to pear/pecl (this also validates it and warns you of any
problems before you push it up to github):

pecl channel-add channel.xml

If that looks good then add all files and push it:

git add -A
git commit -m "Created the channel."
git push origin gh-pages

Hop up a directory (since I've got them as siblings):

cd ..

Package up a release:

pecl package phpredis/package.xml

Switch into the pages repo:

cd phpredis-channel

Add the release to the channel:

pirum add . PhpRedis-2.2.1.tgz

If that doesn't have any errors then commit the changes and push them:

git add -A
git commit -m "Adding the PhpRedis-2.2.1 release."
git push origin gh-pages

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