Be able to install Beta pear and / or pecl package

[brentclark]

Good day

I would like to put in a request for the management and installation of beta packages for pear and pecl.
If you can add package version numbering support it would be appreciated.

Kind Regards
Brent Clark

[jippi]

Have you tried to set $package to something ala "amqp-beta" and "amqp-1.4.0"

Thats the format pecl CLI use to specify version

[brentclark]

Thanks for replying.
It doesn't work

This is my code

  net_dime:
    package: 'Net_DIME-0.3'
    ensure: installed
    provider: pear
  soap:
    package: 'SOAP-0.12.0'
    ensure: installed
    provider: pear

Info: Retrieving pluginfacts
Info: Retrieving plugin
Info: Loading facts
Info: Caching catalog for REMOVED
Info: Applying configuration version '1429101658'
Error: Execution of '/usr/bin/pear upgrade -a SOAP-0.12.0' returned 1: pear/SOAP is already installed and is the same as the released version 0.12.0
upgrade failed
Error: /Stage[main]/Profile::Webserver/Php::Extension[soap]/Package[SOAP-0.12.0]/ensure: change from absent to present failed: Execution of '/usr/bin/pear upgrade -a SOAP-0.12.0' returned 1: pear/SOAP is already installed and is the same as the released version 0.12.0
upgrade failed
Notice: /Stage[main]/Profile::Webserver/Php::Extension[net_dime]/Package[Net_DIME-0.3]/ensure: created
Info: Php::Extension[net_dime]: Scheduling refresh of Service[httpd]
Notice: /Stage[main]/Packages/Package[libswitch-perl]/ensure: ensure changed 'purged' to 'latest'
Notice: /Stage[main]/Apache::Service/Service[httpd]: Dependency Package[SOAP-0.12.0] has failures: true
Warning: /Stage[main]/Apache::Service/Service[httpd]: Skipping because of failed dependencies
Notice: /Stage[main]/Apache::Service/Service[httpd]: Triggered 'refresh' from 1 events

I even tried specifying the version for 'ensure'.

root@REMOVED ~ # pear list | egrep 'SOAP|Net_DIME'
Net_DIME          1.0.2   stable
SOAP              0.12.0  beta

[ebuzzz]

Setting a specific version for ensure works, even if the package is unstable. I guess the problem you're seeing is related to re-installing an existing extension with the same version as latest:

Error: Execution of '/usr/bin/pear upgrade -a SOAP-0.12.0' returned 1: pear/SOAP is already installed and is the same as the released version 0.12.0 upgrade failed