I've got rpm-4.0.3-0.69. Run "rpm -q -l -v -p dev-3.2-1.i386.rpm | head" and you'll see: drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 0 Jul 17 17:58 /dev crw------- 1 root root 10, 10 Jul 17 17:58 /dev/adbmouse crw-r--r-- 1 root root 10, 175 Jul 17 17:58 /dev/agpgart crw------- 2 root root 10, 4 Jul 17 17:58 /dev/amigamouse crw------- 1 root root 10, 7 Jul 17 17:58 /dev/amigamouse1 crw------- 1 root root 10, 134 Jul 17 17:58 /dev/apm_bios drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 0 Jul 17 17:58 /dev/ataraid brw-rw---- 1 root disk 114, 0 Jul 17 17:58 /dev/ataraid/d0 brw-rw---- 1 root disk 114, 1 Jul 17 17:58 /dev/ataraid/d0p1 brw-rw---- 1 root disk 114, 10 Jul 17 17:58 /dev/ataraid/d0p10 But watch what happens when you tell RPM to convert this into cpio format and tell cpio to list it ("rpm2cpio dev-3.2-1.i386.rpm | cpio --list --verbose | head"): drwxr-xr-x 15 root root 0 Jul 17 17:58 ./dev crw------- 1 root root 0, 0 Dec 31 1969 ./dev/adbmouse crw-r--r-- 1 root root 0, 0 Dec 31 1969 ./dev/agpgart crw------- 1 root root 0, 0 Dec 31 1969 ./dev/amigamouse crw------- 1 root root 0, 0 Dec 31 1969 ./dev/amigamouse1 crw------- 1 root root 0, 0 Dec 31 1969 ./dev/apm_bios drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 0 Jul 17 17:58 ./dev/ataraid brw-rw---- 1 root disk 0, 0 Dec 31 1969 ./dev/ataraid/d0 brw-rw---- 1 root disk 0, 0 Dec 31 1969 ./dev/ataraid/d0p1 brw-rw---- 1 root disk 0, 0 Dec 31 1969 ./dev/ataraid/d0p10 Yowza! This means, e.g., that if you use this version of rpm to upgrade your "dev" package, your system will be totally hosed.
Hmm, a little less "DANGER Will Robinson!" FUD, please. rpm-4.0.3-0.73, in our build system for ~6 hours, misbuilt the dev package. Fixed in rpm-4.0.3-0.74.