How do I install a base rpm?

  By installing the actual rpm AND additionally by installing
  the ADODB library manually.  Currently there does not exist any
  adodb rpm for fedora 9.  At least I haven't found one.

  rpm -ivh base-cvs_20080616-1.noarch.rpm

  Alternatively: yum localinstall base-cvs_20080616-1.noarch.rpm

  http://adodb.sourceforge.net/
  tar -xvzf adodb495.tgz
  cp -a adodb /var/www/html/
  chown -R apache.apache /var/www/html/adodb
  chcon -R -h -t httpd_sys_content_t /var/www/html/adodb


  Further rpm's base depends on (in this example: fedora 9):

  rpm -Uvh php-gd-5.2.5-7.fc9.i386.rpm
  rpm -Uvh php-pear-1.7.1-2.fc9.noarch.rpm
  rpm -Uvh php-pear-Image-Color-1.0.2-3.fc7.noarch.rpm
  rpm -Uvh php-pear-Image-Canvas-0.3.1-1.fc8.noarch.rpm
  rpm -Uvh php-pear-Image-Graph-0.7.2-2.fc7.noarch.rpm
  rpm -Uvh php-pear-Numbers-Roman-1.0.2-2.fc9.noarch.rpm
  rpm -Uvh php-pear-Image-Graph-roman-0.7.2-2.fc7.noarch.rpm
  rpm -Uvh php-pear-Numbers-Words-0.15.0-2.fc7.noarch.rpm
  rpm -Uvh php-pear-Image-Graph-words-0.7.2-2.fc7.noarch.rpm




How do I install base without SELinux related relabeling of
the base directory?

  rpm -ivh --nopost base-cvs_20080616-1.noarch.rpm
  # A manual "service httpd reload" afterwards might be necessary, 
  # though, to inform apache about /etc/httpd/conf.d/base.conf.


How do I install base without any SELinux stuff at all?  Neither do I
have any SELinux packages installed nor do I intend to change this
nor do I like it, at all, nor do I want to get bothered with any SELinux
configuration or relabeling.

  rpm -ivh --nodeps --nopost base-cvs_20080616-1.noarch.rpm
  # A manual "service httpd reload" afterwards might be necessary, 
  # though, to inform apache about /etc/httpd/conf.d/base.conf.


How do I upgrade an rpm?

  rpm -Uvh base-cvs_20080616-1.noarch.rpm


How do I remove an rpm?

  rpm -e base


How do I remove an rpm without any SELinux commands being run?

  rpm -e --nopostun base


How do I remove base without /etc/base/base_conf.php also being deleted?

  rpm -e --nopreun base


Which files belong to the base package?

  rpm -q -l base


How do I prepare my computer for building my own rpm's as an
ordinary user?

  rpm -ivh rpmdevtools-6.6-1.fc9.noarch

  rpmdev-setuptree

  # The directory where all the SPECS, RPMS, SOURCES directories can be
  # found is now in ~/rpmbuild
  
  # Add information about your gpg signing key:
  vim ~/.rpmmacros

  %_signature gpg
  %_gpgbin /usr/bin/gpg
  %_gpg_name 0x12345678

  # And now, provide me with a *.spec template:
  rpmdev-newspec -o my_new_app.spec
  # or
  rpmdev-newspec -o my_new_pear_app.spec -T php-pear
  # Cf. templates in: /etc/rpmdevtools

 

How do I build my own rpm's, based on base.spec?

  ls -1 SOURCES
  base-cvs_20080616.tar.gz
  base_maintenance.pl.patch

  ls -1 SPECS
  base.spec

  cd SPECS
  vim base.spec

    Version: cvs_20080616
    Release: 0

  rpmdev-bumpspec -u "John Doe <John's@email.address.net>" -c "Fixed this and that" base.spec
  rpmlint base.spec
  rpmbuild --quiet -ba base.spec

  cd ../RPMS/noarch
  rpmlint base-cvs_20080616-1.noarch.rpm
  rpmlint base-contrib-cvs_20080616-1.noarch.rpm
  rpm --addsign base-cvs_20080616-1.noarch.rpm
  rpm --addsign base-contrib-cvs_20080616-1.noarch.rpm
  rpm --checksig base-cvs_20080616-1.noarch.rpm
  rpm --checksig base-contrib-cvs_20080616-1.noarch.rpm
  rpm -Uvh --test base-cvs_20080616-1.noarch.rpm
  rpm -Uvh --test base-contrib-cvs_20080616-1.noarch.rpm

  cd ../../SRPMS
  rpmlint base-cvs_20080616-1.src.rpm
  rpm --addsign base-cvs_20080616-1.src.rpm
  rpm --checksig base-cvs_20080616-1.src.rpm
  rpm -Uvh --test base-cvs_20080616-1.src.rpm