[Rpm-maint] [rpm-software-management/rpm] RFE: allow setting rpm variable, named with other variables (#960)

[nim-nim]

I’d like to be able to declare rpm variables, with a name constructed from other rpm variables

```rpmspec
%global something%{suffix} value
```
Because I need to pass info from `%build` to `%install`, and `%build` may execute the same operation for multiple subpackages.

The current way to do that is to write things to a file in `%build` and read it in `%install`, but that is excessively cumbersome (cumbersome enough I’m now doing build operations in `%install` just to avoid this pain).

Please just relax the stupid assert that freaks out if it sees a variable in the new variable name.

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