Pear bag not allowed

Question

A sudden composer cannot solve any particular pear package (net_gearman). Everything used to work without problems before. On my development machine, I get no errors, and the package installs successfully, but on the CI server I get the following error:

     [exec] Updating dependencies (including require-dev)
     [exec] Your requirements could not be resolved to an installable set of packages.
     [exec] 
     [exec]   Problem 1
     [exec]     - acsi/acsi-job dev-trunk requires pear-pear/net_gearman * -> no     matching package found.
     [exec] 
     [exec] Potential causes:
     [exec]  - A typo in the package name
     [exec]  - The package is not available in a stable-enough version according to your    minimum-stability setting
     [exec]    see <https://groups.google.com/d/topic/composer-dev/_g3ASeIFlrc/discussion> for more details.
     [exec] 
     [exec] Read <http://getcomposer.org/doc/articles/troubleshooting.md> for further common problems.

My root composer.json defines the pear repository:

{
    "repositories": [
        {
            "type": "pear",
            "url": "http://pear.php.net"
        }
    ]
}

Another package requires the Net_Gearman library:

{
    "require": {
        "pear-pear/Net_Gearman": "*",
        "pear-pear/PEAR": "*"
    }
}

I run the composer command after clearing VCS, so there is no provider card and composer.lock yet. I tried the following commands:

composer install --prefer-dist
composer install --prefer-source

Both lead to the same error as mentioned above. Anyone have a suggestion how can I solve this problem?

Answer 1

This should work:

{
    "require": {
        "pear-pear.php.net/Net_Gearman": "*",
    }
}