From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.1b) Gecko/20020817 Description of problem: There is something wrong with all the rawhide-release packages in the past few weeks. I doubt it's due to rawhide-release itself; I rather suspect it's something to do with RPM. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 4.1.x How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: # rpm -q rawhide-release package rawhide-release is not installed # rpm -Uvh rawhide-release-20020820-1.noarch.rpm Preparing... ########################################### [100%] 1:rawhide-release ########################################### [100%] error: rpmdb: skipping h# 683 # rpm -q rawhide-release # rpm --rebuilddb # rpm -q rawhide-release package rawhide-release is not installed Actual Results: rawhide-release is not correctly added to the RPM database and an error message is output. The file /etc/redhat-release gets correctly written out to disk, but there's no trace of that in the RPM database. The dependencies for autofs and initscripts will thus break. It doesn't look like anything is getting corrupted, but it doesn't inspire much trust either. The behaviour in the steps above is quite puzzling, too: take a close look at what rpm -q returns. Additional info: I have been seeing this in recent weeks on four different systems. All of them more of less always up-to-date with the most recent Raw Hide packages. One of them was switched from RH 7.1 to Raw Hide just last night and it exhibits the very same symptoms. This seems to have started some time after the switch to RPM 4.1.
Fixed in rpm-4.1-0.86 (when built).