---
name: "dh-make-pear"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "dh-make-php"
version: "0.4.0"
release: "Debian 8 (Jessie)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/dh-make-pear"
---

# dh-make-pear(1)

Create debian source packages from pear modules

## NAME

dh-make-pear - Create debian source packages from pear modules

## SYNOPSIS

**dh-make-pear** \[**--help** \] \[**--version** \] \[**--rename** \] \[**--arch** *any \| all*\] \[**--state** *STATE*\] \[**--depends** *DEPENDS*\] \[**--maintainer** *MAINTAINER*\] \[**--prefix** *PREFIX*\] \[**--templatedir** *TEMPLATEDIR*\] \[PACKAGE\]

## DESCRIPTION

This manual page documents briefly the **dh-make-pear** command.

**dh-make-pear** creates the files required to build a debian source package from a PHP extension as it is distributed through PEAR.

The last parameter passed to **dh-make-pear** can be either the .tgz archive containing the php extension or the name of the extension. In the second case **dh-make-pear** will first download the archive from http://pear.php.net. If **dh-make-pear** downloads the archive itself, it will always take the most recent version.

**dh-make-pear** will by default create a directory named php-\<pear-package-name\> which will contain the debian files and the unpacked files from the extension. It will also create a symlink php-\<pear-package-name\>\_\<version\>.orig.tar.gz pointing towards the original source. After creating the files you can go into then new directory and build the debian package with **dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot**.

**dh-make-pear** tries to extract as much information about the package from the file package.xml which is part of the pear extension.

Debian source packages created by **dh-make-pear** can later easily be updated with **uscan**.

## OPTIONS

These programs follow the usual GNU command line syntax, with long options starting with two dashes (\`-'). A summary of options is included below. For a complete description, see the Info files.

- **-h** **--help**

  Show summary of options.

- **-v** **--version**

  Show version of program.

- **--rename**

  Do not link orig.tar.gz but move the source into .orig.tar.gz.

- **--arch**

  Set architecture of created debian source package to 'any' or 'all'. Defaults to 'all'.

- **--state**

  Set preferred state for downloaded package. Defaults to 'stable'.

- **--depends**

  Adds more packages to Depends: beside php-pear.

- **--prefix**

  Sets prefix of debian source package name. Each name ends in '\<pear-package-name\>'. Defaults to 'php-'.

- **--maintainer**

  Explicitly sets the maintainer. In most cases it will be propperly guessed by reading some of the environment variables.

- **--templatedir**

  Use a different directory with templates for the debian files. Defaults to /usr/share/dh-make-php/pear.template.

## ENVIRONMENT

DEBFULLNAME - get the real name of the maintainer

LOGNAME or USER - get the username

DEBEMAIL or EMAIL - get the email address of the user

## SEE ALSO

dh-make-pecl (1).

## AUTHOR

**UWE STEINMANN** \<steinm@debian.org\>

Wrote this manpage for the Debian system.

## COPYRIGHT

Copyright © 2004-2010 Uwe Steinmann\

This manual page was written for the Debian system (and may be used by others).

Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU General Public License, Version 2 or (at your option) any later version published by the Free Software Foundation.

On Debian systems, the complete text of the GNU General Public License can be found in /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL.