Pirum is a simple PEAR channel server manager that was built by Fabien Potencier.
The Pirum project allows you to easily setup a PEAR channel and publish your own packages quickly. This quick blog post / article will get you going with it in no time.
Getting Started
There are a few things that you must have already to get going on this exercise (besides PHP and a Web Server *Note: you can do it without these):