Hi php-devel-list. Some old extension still use package.xml in version 1.0 which is deprecated (no channel support). PEAR 1.6 will only support 2.0. One solution is to convert this old file to new 2.0 format. For example, we can use : %prep %setup -q -c %{__pear} convert package.xml package2.xml mv package2.xml %{pear_name}-%{version}/%{pear_name}.xml php-pear-Net-Ping is an example. I will submit it to Review soon (it is required by "oreon") Comments please. Remi