On Feb 5, 2008, at 5:17 PM, devzero2000 wrote:

> Good !!!!!!1
>
> But the rpm, where is ?
>

Again, rpm5.org is vendor neutral, and so releases tar balls, not *.rpm
packages.

Meanwhile, the rpm.spec.in file vontained in rpm-5.0.2.tar.gz is  
mostly functional.
All I needed to fix was this minor problem:
--- rpm.spec.in 22 Jan 2008 21:52:44 -0000      2.450
+++ rpm.spec.in 5 Feb 2008 23:41:31 -0000
@@ -274,6 +274,7 @@ gzip -9n apidocs/man/man*/* || :
    rm -rf .%{_mandir}/pl/man8/rpmcache.8*
    rm -rf .%{_mandir}/pl/man8/rpmgraph.8*
    rm -rf .%{_mandir}/{fr,ko}
+  rm -rf .%{_mandir}/man1/xar.1*
    rm -rf .%{_bindir}/xar
    rm -rf .%{_includedir}/xar
    rm -rf .%{_libdir}/libxar*


I've used the spec file in the rpm-5.0.2.tar.gz release to build  
binary packages
on a Fedora 9 platform that are available at

     http://wraptastic.org/pub/i386-linux/RPMS/

hth

73 de Jeff