On Apr 15, 2008, at 3:39 PM, Ralf S. Engelschall wrote:

> On Tue, Apr 15, 2008, Jeff Johnson wrote:
>
>> See if this patch avoids erasing perl. It should.
>> [...]
>
> Yes, successfully fixed the problem when applied to RPM 5.1.0!
> Many thanks, Jeff.

np.

We can instantly (well I'd like to wait a few days to see how the  
segfault resolves)
release 5.1.1 if necessary. OTOH, I suspect that you are using a  
different %___NVRA
macro than most, the default pattern N-V-R.A should parse just fine.

It would have been nice if RPMTAG_NVRA could be split
up reliably. That might have been a way to rename and/or
change encodings for rpmdb entries. There are certainly
efforts underway to impose UTF8 on rpmdb key retrieval
underway for several years (rpm-python patch is what I think of).
Too bad that there is simply no guarenteed encoding yet for
rpmdb keys no matter how much one wishes there was.

73 de Jeff