[chef] trouble installing php_pear Protobuf package

[Abhijit Vaidya < >]

Hi All

I am trying to install php_pear package Protobuf.  I am trying to install beta version. when I install it manually by ,

pear channel-discover pear.pollinimini.net
pear install drslump/Protobuf-beta

It is successfull but with chef it fails

My recipe is

include_recipe "php" 

 drslump = php_pear_channel "pear.pollinimini.net"  do

    action :discover

    action :update

 end 

 php_pear Protobuf do 

    preferred_state "beta" 

    channel drslump.channel_name 

    action :install 

 end 

but I get 

STDOUT: Failed to download drslump/Protobuf within preferred state "beta", latest release is version 0.9.4, stability "beta", use "channel://pear.pollinimini.net/Protobuf-0.9.4" to install

I tried all available options but no help.

Can somebody please help if anybody has tried it before.

Thanks

Abhijit