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

[Panu Matilainen]

@chantra - just a heads-up: this is a most unfortunate time to be working on this stuff as the fsm will see an even bigger change (than #1534) in a month or two (hopefully!) to deal with the multiple open symlink CVEs.

Decoupling the plugin rc's is probably a good thing anyhow, but as for the initial use-case of that I think we just need a better API instead, one that is designed to offload payload content handling to a plugin rather than shoehorn it into the clearly ill-fitting existing one. As payload format is a per-package thing, this should be determined on rpmte level rather than per-file level, and the writing side needs to be something like rpm handing the plugin an open fd and the plugin placing the content there by whatever means. 

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