On Sun, Nov 11, 2007, Ralf S. Engelschall wrote:

> As you perhaps have already recognized by the CVS commits and rpm-devel@
> messages, the RPM 5 project team now entered the official release
> engineering phase for RPM 5.0.
>
> You can find details of the proposed release engineering roadmap under
> http://rpm5.org/roadmap.php. The first step towards RPM 5.0.0 (scheduled
> for release end of this year) is the release of RPM 5.0a1 today. Find it
> under the files area http://rpm5.org/files/rpm/rpm-5.0/
>
> But please keep in mind that RPM 5.0aX are *ALPHA* releases, which
> means that the RPM API is still changing, the code might be still
> partly broken, the primary audience are just early adopters in the
> RPM community and the purpose of the release is just to get initial
> feedback. It is *not* intended for end users or even be used in any
> production environment. But if you are a software distribution vendor
> who uses RPM 4, *NOW* is the time to start your evaluations of RPM 5 and
> give feedback!

As a file (which is required to successfully build RPM under
Linux) was accidentally missing from the official distribution
tarball of RPM 5.0a1, a small patch file is available under
http://rpm5.org/files/rpm/rpm-5.0/rpm-5.0a1.1.patch which fixes the
problem. Just to make sure RPM 5.0a1 can be really test-driven also
under Linux...
                                       Ralf S. Engelschall
                                       rse@engelschall.com
                                       www.engelschall.com