[Rpm-maint] [rpm-software-management/rpm] RPM with Copy on Write (#1470)

Panu Matilainen notifications at github.com
Wed Feb 3 10:41:34 UTC 2021


Sorry, I just don't have the bandwidth to deal with this in any sort of detail at this time. What seems clear to me though is that this isn't going to be acceptable in F34, beyond that the crystal ball grows dimmer.

That said, what little background processing I've managed to do on this, the more I think this isn't a use-case we'd want to be maintaining going forward in rpm itself. It's forced there right now because the plugin API is not public, and that API probably isn't quite enough to handle this as it is, especially getting the plugin API public is a long-standing todo-item, getting increasingly more important. As are a thousand other things, unfortunately, but at least the plugin API is something we *can* justify spending cycles on because it benefits so much more than just somebody's very special use-case.

I don't have time to dig into the details, but as a general guideline, try to approach this from the perspective of enhancing the plugin API to the goal of making this possible without changes to core rpm. 

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