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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.