PEAR_Command_Remote::doRemoteInfo PHP Method

    function doRemoteInfo($command, $options, $params)
    {
        if (sizeof($params) != 1) {
            return $this->raiseError("{$command} expects one param: the remote package name");
        }
        $savechannel = $channel = $this->config->get('default_channel');
        $reg =& $this->config->getRegistry();
        $package = $params[0];
        $parsed = $reg->parsePackageName($package, $channel);
        if (PEAR::isError($parsed)) {
            return $this->raiseError('Invalid package name "' . $package . '"');
        }
        $channel = $parsed['channel'];
        $this->config->set('default_channel', $channel);
        $chan = $reg->getChannel($channel);
        if (PEAR::isError($e = $this->_checkChannelForStatus($channel, $chan))) {
            return $e;
        }
        $mirror = $this->config->get('preferred_mirror');
        if ($chan->supportsREST($mirror) && ($base = $chan->getBaseURL('REST1.0', $mirror))) {
            $rest =& $this->config->getREST('1.0', array());
            $info = $rest->packageInfo($base, $parsed['package'], $channel);
        }
        if (!isset($info)) {
            return $this->raiseError('No supported protocol was found');
        }
        if (PEAR::isError($info)) {
            $this->config->set('default_channel', $savechannel);
            return $this->raiseError($info);
        }
        if (!isset($info['name'])) {
            return $this->raiseError('No remote package "' . $package . '" was found');
        }
        $installed = $reg->packageInfo($info['name'], null, $channel);
        $info['installed'] = $installed['version'] ? $installed['version'] : '- no -';
        if (is_array($info['installed'])) {
            $info['installed'] = $info['installed']['release'];
        }
        $this->ui->outputData($info, $command);
        $this->config->set('default_channel', $savechannel);
        return true;
    }