as I said in my last post, I can't install any rmp.. I always get:

drusilla# alias rpm rpm --root /usr/pkg/emul/linux --dbpath /var/pkg/lib/rpm
drusilla# rpm -i --ignoreos --ignorearch --nodeps WHATEVER.RPM
error creating temporary file /usr/pkg/emul/linux/var/tmp/rpm-tmp.2536
rpm in free(): warning: junk pointer, too high to make sense.
error: WHATEVER.RPM cannot be installed

..and its still like that.. even via FTP..

However, I have no probelm installing any rpm using rpm2pkg, with something 
like:

rpm2pkg -d /usr/pkg/emul/linux /PATH/WHATEVER.RPM

I get everything decompressed in the right place, no output, just works 
fine..

just 2 questions:

- does rpm2pkg register the rpm in some db? as far as I saw, a package.rpm 
file has been touched, but if I ask 'rpm -qa' (with that dbpath of course), 
it says no rpm has been installed (in case, may I register the rpm myself? 
is there a reason to do that?)

- may I assume I have a problem with the rpm executable I built via pkgsrc? 
or is it normal for rpm to always give that kind of errors?

- is there a reason why should anyone consider bothering with rpm, since 
rpm2pkg works?

Germano