[Rpm-maint] [rpm-software-management/rpm] RFE: implement chained builds by recursively build-and-install in rpmbuild (#465)

[Jeff Johnson]

Package builds are increasingly complex, often requiring multiple prerequisites to be present before attempting a given build. When the prerequisites are newer (or otherwise incompatible) with the system provided  packages, this usually requires what is called a chained build with a large number of components -- build system, depsolvers, repositories, etc -- cooperating to achieve a successful build.

This RFE proposes adding the ability to install just built packages as a post operation after a successful build, and a means to recursively invoke rpmbuild on either a manifest or multiple arguments that are first topologically sorted and then executed sequentially.

All the necessary operations to recursively perform a chained build already exist in rpm.

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