I'm currently in the progress of releasing 5.0a2, but the "devtool
standalone testdrive" procedure already fails with errors like the
following:

| devtool:standalone:testdrive:ERROR: trivial testsuite failed (trace follows):
| + /tmp/rpm/bin/rpm -vv --initdb
| D: opening  db environment /tmp/rpm/var/rpm/db/Packages create:cdb:mpool
| D: opening  db index       /tmp/rpm/var/rpm/db/Packages create mode=0x202
| D: locked   db index       /tmp/rpm/var/rpm/db/Packages
| D: closed   db index       /tmp/rpm/var/rpm/db/Packages
| D: closed   db environment /tmp/rpm/var/rpm/db/Packages
| + /tmp/rpm/bin/rpm -vv --import ./pubkeys/JBJ-GPG-KEY
| D: opening  db environment /tmp/rpm/var/rpm/db/Packages cdb:mpool
| D: opening  db index       /tmp/rpm/var/rpm/db/Packages create mode=0x202
| D: locked   db index       /tmp/rpm/var/rpm/db/Packages
| D: opening  db index       /tmp/rpm/var/rpm/db/Name create mode=0x202
| D: adding "gpg-pubkey" to Name index.
| D: opening  db index       /tmp/rpm/var/rpm/db/Group create mode=0x202
| D: adding "Public Keys" to Group index.
| D: opening  db index       /tmp/rpm/var/rpm/db/Providename create mode=0x202
| D: adding 2 entries to Providename index.
| D: opening  db index       /tmp/rpm/var/rpm/db/Provideversion create mode=0x202
| D: adding 2 entries to Provideversion index.
| D: opening  db index       /tmp/rpm/var/rpm/db/Installtid create mode=0x202
| D: adding 1 entries to Installtid index.
| D: opening  db index       /tmp/rpm/var/rpm/db/Pubkeys create mode=0x202
| D: adding 1 entries to Pubkeys index.
| D: opening  db index       /tmp/rpm/var/rpm/db/Packagecolor create mode=0x202
| D: adding 1 entries to Packagecolor index.
| D: opening  db index       /tmp/rpm/var/rpm/db/Nvra create mode=0x202
| D: adding "gpg-pubkey-2039b291-3dbaae72.src" to Nvra index.
| D: closed   db index       /tmp/rpm/var/rpm/db/Nvra
| D: closed   db index       /tmp/rpm/var/rpm/db/Packagecolor
| D: closed   db index       /tmp/rpm/var/rpm/db/Pubkeys
| D: closed   db index       /tmp/rpm/var/rpm/db/Installtid
| D: closed   db index       /tmp/rpm/var/rpm/db/Provideversion
| D: closed   db index       /tmp/rpm/var/rpm/db/Providename
| D: closed   db index       /tmp/rpm/var/rpm/db/Group
| D: closed   db index       /tmp/rpm/var/rpm/db/Name
| D: closed   db index       /tmp/rpm/var/rpm/db/Packages
| D: closed   db environment /tmp/rpm/var/rpm/db/Packages
| + /tmp/rpm/bin/rpm -vv -qa
| D: opening  db environment /tmp/rpm/var/rpm/db/Packages cdb:mpool
| D: opening  db index       /tmp/rpm/var/rpm/db/Packages rdonly mode=0x0
| D: locked   db index       /tmp/rpm/var/rpm/db/Packages
| error: rpmdbNextIterator: skipping h#       1 tag[20]: BAD, tag 1834043241 type 1111765558 offset 1919830354 count 1111573609
| D: closed   db index       /tmp/rpm/var/rpm/db/Packages
| D: closed   db environment /tmp/rpm/var/rpm/db/Packages
| + /tmp/rpm/bin/rpm -vv -qi gpg-pubkey-2039b291-3dbaae72
| D: opening  db environment /tmp/rpm/var/rpm/db/Packages cdb:mpool
| D: opening  db index       /tmp/rpm/var/rpm/db/Packages rdonly mode=0x0
| D: locked   db index       /tmp/rpm/var/rpm/db/Packages
| D: opening  db index       /tmp/rpm/var/rpm/db/Name rdonly mode=0x0
| error: rpmdbNextIterator: skipping h#       1 tag[20]: BAD, tag 1834043241 type 1111765558 offset 1919830354 count 1111573609
| package gpg-pubkey-2039b291-3dbaae72 is not installed
| D: closed   db index       /tmp/rpm/var/rpm/db/Name
| D: closed   db index       /tmp/rpm/var/rpm/db/Packages
| D: closed   db environment /tmp/rpm/var/rpm/db/Packages
| + exit 1
| rse@en1:/u/rse/prj/rpm/src/rpm
| $ /tmp/rpm/bin/rpm -vv -qi gpg-pubkey-2039b291-3dbaae72
| D: opening  db environment /tmp/rpm/var/rpm/db/Packages cdb:mpool
| D: opening  db index       /tmp/rpm/var/rpm/db/Packages rdonly mode=0x0
| D: locked   db index       /tmp/rpm/var/rpm/db/Packages
| D: opening  db index       /tmp/rpm/var/rpm/db/Name rdonly mode=0x0
| error: rpmdbNextIterator: skipping h#       1 tag[20]: BAD, tag 1834043241 type 1111765558 offset 1919830354 count 1111573609
| package gpg-pubkey-2039b291-3dbaae72 is not installed
| D: closed   db index       /tmp/rpm/var/rpm/db/Name
| D: closed   db index       /tmp/rpm/var/rpm/db/Packages
| D: closed   db environment /tmp/rpm/var/rpm/db/Packages
| rse@en1:/u/rse/prj/rpm/src/rpm
| $ /tmp/rpm/bin/rpm -v -qi gpg-pubkey-2039b291-3dbaae72
| error: rpmdbNextIterator: skipping h#       1 tag[20]: BAD, tag 1834043241 type 1111765558 offset 1919830354 count 1111573609
| package gpg-pubkey-2039b291-3dbaae72 is not installed

Notice the "error: rpmdbNextIterator: [...]" error lines!
Jeff, any clue?
                                       Ralf S. Engelschall
                                       rse@engelschall.com
                                       www.engelschall.com