pear install doesn't work due to bug in Archive/Tar

Hello!

I can't submit a bug-report on the site. It said it encountered a critical
internal error sending mail. So I am sending to the dev-list.

I cannot install anything with pear install... It always fails with "Invalid
tgz file".

This is a clean install of PHP 5.2.2 on a new machine. During make install I
get a warning:

warning: pear/PEAR dependency package "pear/Console_Getopt" installed
version 1.2.1 is not the recommended version 1.2.2

I don't know if this has anything to do with it.

If I try to install anything, and I mean *anything* I get "Invalid tgz
file.". Like so:

root $ pear install mdb2
downloading MDB2-2.4.1.tgz ...
Starting to download MDB2-2.4.1.tgz (119,790 bytes)
......................done: 119,790 bytes
Could not get contents of package "/tmp/pear/cache/MDB2-2.4.1.tgz". Invalid
tgz file.
Download of "pear/mdb2" succeeded, but it is not a valid package archive
Error: cannot download "pear/MDB2"

The archive tests fine with "tar tzvf" and I can unpack it.
I tried to debug Archive/Tar.php and found that it fails in a loop starting
on line 1430, if I dump $v_binary_data in the loop, it fails in the second
iteration - It fails on

if (!$this->_readHeader($v_binary_data, $v_header))

The first iteration is fine, I can see the header and it contains
package.xml and some numbers. On the second iteration I see the contents of
example.php (MDB2's example script), and it fails.

I guess it reads too much when it extracts package.xml - or rather it
doesn't "rewind" far enough to read the header...

I do have Zend Platform installed if that has anything to do with this...


Regards,

Lars

Lars Petersen wrote:
> Hello!
>
> I can't submit a bug-report on the site. It said it encountered a critical
> internal error sending mail. So I am sending to the dev-list.
>
> I cannot install anything with pear install... It always fails with
> "Invalid
> tgz file".
>
> This is a clean install of PHP 5.2.2 on a new machine. During make
> install I
> get a warning:
>
> warning: pear/PEAR dependency package "pear/Console_Getopt" installed
> version 1.2.1 is not the recommended version 1.2.2
>
> I don't know if this has anything to do with it.
>
> If I try to install anything, and I mean *anything* I get "Invalid tgz
> file.". Like so:
>
> root $ pear install mdb2
> downloading MDB2-2.4.1.tgz ...
> Starting to download MDB2-2.4.1.tgz (119,790 bytes)
> .....................done: 119,790 bytes
> Could not get contents of package "/tmp/pear/cache/MDB2-2.4.1.tgz". Invalid
> tgz file.
> Download of "pear/mdb2" succeeded, but it is not a valid package archive
> Error: cannot download "pear/MDB2"

Could you please verify that these steps fail:

pear download MDB2
pear bundle MDB2-2.4.1.tgz

Thanks,
Greg