I built 5 gentoo servers with PEAR-PEAR-1.3.6-r2 and -r3, on different platforms. Every system returns the following when running pear -V: # pear -V PEAR Version: @pear_version@ PHP Version: 5.1.1-gentoo Zend Engine Version: 2.1.0 Since the pear version is bogus, pear will not install packages.
Fixed in dev-php/PEAR-PEAR-1.3.6-r4.