[Rpm-maint] [PATCH 2/2] Add RPMTAG_IDENTITY

[Ivan Zakharyaschev]

Hello!

On Wed, 14 Mar 2018, Vladimir D. Seleznev wrote:

> On Wed, Mar 14, 2018 at 10:20:58AM -0400, Jeff Johnson wrote:

>> I'd also suggest a more specific name than IDENTITY because there are
>> many definitions of reproducibility, as well as alternative schemes
>> like building, and there are surely going to be multiple attempts to
>> Get It Right! that make IDENTITY a misnomer.
>
> This tag is not only about reproducibility, it supposes to represent
> package build result identity, so we can differentiate one build from
> another from one source package (with same NEVR) if there are
> significant difference, such as different rundeps, generated binary

What does "rundeps" mean?

> files, different filelist that packaged to the files, etc. One benefit
> of this is reproducible build proof, second one is that we can use value
> from this tag to generate more strict intersubpackage deps, so we can
> use these for binary package rebuild without release upping (in case new
> SONAME buildreq or new compiler).
>
> We couldn't think of better tag name (you can propose a better name).


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Best regards,
Ivan