[Rpm-maint] [rpm-software-management/rpm] export environment variable for package on which depgen is run (#502)

[Jeff Johnson]

Ok, I think I've got the intent.

The flaw in the approach is that the namespace of pkg-config (and likely Python/rust/perl/node/Java etc) is very different than rpm package names and a fully general solution would need to supply mappings between "package" namespaces that are deliberately using different string identifiers.

Mapping between namespaces is a much harder problem to solve than passing NEVRA identifiers to helpers through either macros or envvars.

Note that a fully general mapping mechanism might also unify rpm and apt/dpkg dependency namespaces and simplify interoperation. 

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