RPM bindings for perl

Hi,

I'm trying to search inside various RPMs using perl for information
such as name, version, vendor, etc, and wondered what the best
approach would be. I found perl-RPM from RJRAY at CPAN, but it's
dated, and doesn't compile against a distro with rpm-4.8.

I searched freshmeat for existing code to manipulate RPM information
and wasn't very successful.

What is the best approach to do this?

Thanks,
Alex