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pear config-set preferred_state beta

November 24th, 2004

I wish i could just do:

pear install Calendar beta

instead of:

pear config-set preferred_state beta
pear install Calendar
pear config-set preferred_state stable

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8 Responses to “pear config-set preferred_state beta”

  1. Lukas says:
    11/24/2004 at 1:32 am

    try:
    pear install Calendar-beta

    you can always append the state with a dash infront to override the preferred state setting

  2. Helgi says:
    11/24/2004 at 1:41 am

    Ohh lukas was faster, damn him :P

    pear install -f Calendar would also work.

  3. Alan Knowles says:
    11/24/2004 at 2:08 am

    I think greg added support for
    pear install calendar-beta

  4. Jeff Moore says:
    11/24/2004 at 9:11 am

    Thanks. :) You learn something new every day.

  5. Jason Sweat says:
    11/24/2004 at 9:27 am

    Wish Granted :) :)

  6. Jan Schneider says:
    11/25/2004 at 9:08 am

    pear -d preferred_state=beta install calendar
    works too, btw.

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