[horde] expanding on the "pear install MDB2_Schema" step during upgrade

[Robert P. J. Day]

Quoting "Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday at crashcourse.ca>:

>   unrelated to what's been going on so far, i read ahead and in the
> 3.2.x -> 3.3.x upgrade step, the user is told to:
>
>   #  pear install MDB2_Schema
>
> from a position of *total* pear ignorance, i typed exactly that and got:
>
> Failed to download pear/MDB2_Schema within preferred state "stable",
> latest release is version 0.8.5, stability "beta", use
> "channel://pear.php.net/MDB2_Schema-0.8.5" to install
> Cannot initialize 'channel://pear.php.net/MDB2_Schema', invalid or
> missing package file
> Package "channel://pear.php.net/MDB2_Schema" is not valid
> install failed
>
>
>   that's exactly the kind of thing that throws someone off.  based on
> what i read, it would appear that i'm configured to only allow "stable"
> content, while MDB2_Schema-0.8.5 is labelled as "beta", is that why
> it's failing?
>
>   if i run:
>
>   # pear config-show
>
> i can see:
>
> ...
> Preferred Package State        preferred_state  stable
> ...
>
>   i'm going to guess that i just have to switch that to accept beta
> content, yes?  it shouldn't be hard for me to figure out how, but
> that's *precisely* the sort of thing that should be addressed in the
> documentation -- what might go wrong at various stages and how to fix
> it.

   by the way, the solution(s):

http://www.ducea.com/2008/02/01/installing-pear-beta-packages/

rday