AFAIK, all blocking issues for rpm-5.0.1 are resolved.

Here's the items in the TODO:

   - /usr/lib64 is reported not expanded into rpm.pc pkgconfig fle and
         ___init.py___.

   - distributing per-platform configuration needs to be done. At a  
minimum,
         the cpu-os.macros.tar.gz file needs distributing with the  
rpm tarball.

    - 2-4 applications are having trouble compiling against  
rpm-5.0.0, largely
         (my guess) because header.h has been removed. A stub to  
retrofit
         could be done, but then the question will become headerGetEntry
         (and other) symbols. Which also could be retrofit'ed if there
         as interest, noone replied when I asked repeatedly.  
Alternatively,
         just doing the port to rpm-5.0.0 is likely not hard at all.

The first issue is reported to have a work around (from Michael  
Jennings, holler if I misunderstand).

The 2nd issue has to do solely with the release. The rpm.spec.in has  
been
updated, builds for me on Fedora, but there's likely some further  
polishing.

The last issue is likely best solved by porting net-snmp (and urpmi) to
rpm-5.0.0.

There's also QNX support (done afaik), and rpmbuild --lsb fiddles  
(ongoing),
but none of those are critical to rpm-5.0.1.

Any other issues?

73 de Jeff