Ralf S. Engelschall wrote:

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

> | error: rpmdbNextIterator: skipping h#       1 tag[20]: BAD, tag 
> 1834043241 type 1111765558 offset 1919830354 count 1111573609

> Notice the "error: rpmdbNextIterator: [...]" error lines!
> Jeff, any clue?

Noticed this friday, but I think Jeff said he was working on it... ?
(most likely, the "testdrive" also needs a real package and a rpmbuild)

Q: Did the zlib upgrade work OK on the various %standalone platforms ?
(and how did the external xar library build go, for use with standalone)

--anders