[Rpm-maint] [rpm-software-management/rpm] Add armv8* arch variants to rpmrc.in (#425)

[Jeff Johnson]

If you wish to move to "human readable" names, then the specific functionalities tied to arch in rpmrc need to be separately configured.

There's only a few critical values that rpmrc provides a default for
* (per-arch) optflags (like in this issue)
* (global) macrofiles search patterns

and the rest of rpmrc is largely arch/os compatibility related to scoring, with some deeply obscure platform name/alias mappings buried in lib/rpmrc.c.

>From experience in eliminating rpmrc configuration:

I suspect that distro macro dialect deviations have progressed everywhere to the point that it is impossible to build without installing that distro's macro configuration which typically overrides %optflags (and usually provides C++ and other compiler flags).

The arch scoring is/was the hardest to implement satisfactorily.

And of course every distro I am aware of chose to repatch rpm to re-add the good old rpmrc "stuff". Old code never dies, oh well, I tried.

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