[Rpm-maint] [rpm-software-management/rpm] Build-id in RPM (Discussion #2031)

[Colin Walters]

> numerical build id - a monotonically increasing build number, 

That already exists - it's the build time!

A mode where RPM completely ignores the EVR and simply compares build times would help unlock a whole bunch of things, including making it easier to [revert to a previous version](https://lwn.net/Articles/513346/).

> and buildtime is hardly a solution for that either.

Why do you say that?

That's how ostree works for example today - the version number is just for humans, and the code instead just cares about (by default) a monotonically increasing timestamp: https://github.com/ostreedev/ostree/blob/98587a72db9b52eee63b4bfa9c47a77d2e327501/src/libostree/ostree-repo-pull.c#L1668




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