[imp] Installing H4 / stability "beta" [Was: IMP H4 (5.0-RC1)]

[Adam Tauno Williams]

On Thu, 2011-03-24 at 18:10 -0400, Adam Tauno Williams wrote:
> > We encourage widespread testing and feedback via the mailing lists or our bug
> > tracking system. Updated translations are very welcome.
> > To install IMP, you need to install Horde first. See
> > https://github.com/horde/horde/blob/master/horde/docs/INSTALL for  
> > details. Once
> Attempting to follow those instructions, but this fails with many
> messages like -
> Failed to download horde/Horde_Vfs within preferred state "stable", 
> latest release is version 1.0.0RC1, stability "beta", use 
> "channel://pear.horde.org/Horde_Vfs-1.0.0RC1" to install
> Do I have to install all those manually (specifying the full channel) or
> is there a pear setting to get around this?  I understand it is beta, I
> just want to tell pear that is OK.

Is "pear config-set preferred_state beta" the correct option?