[Rpm-maint] [rpm-software-management/rpm] RPM v6 package format, first public draft for commenting (Discussion #2374)

[Panu Matilainen]

> This might be a dumb question
> 
> > sizes are always 64bit ... RPMSIGTAG_LONGSIZE
> 
> If "header + payload" signatures are going away, is there any reason to continue storing the combined "header + payload" size? In other words, can this not also be ditched?

It's actually a good question. The size tags in the signature are an unreliable source of information, and not actually needed for anything. Rpm only "uses" them for debug-printing the information IIRC.

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