[Rpm-maint] [rpm-software-management/rpm] Is there a way to merge several RPMs (Discussion #2887)

[Vít Ondruch]

> I guess what you mean by "merging" is something entirely different than me & ffesti think of.

In my naive view, I see binary RPM as nothing more then (fancy) tarballs. And combining two tarballs is legitimate operation AFAIK, given there is `tar --concatenate` option.

> Binary rpm's are immutable end products of a spec which directs rpmbuild to produce said rpms. Somehow undoing a separation set by the packager is just not a meaningful operation at all. The only meaningful merge in rpm land is something a packager does, at a spec/srpm level.

I see it differently. If you abstract away, then several merged RPMs gives you e.g. container image (Yes, I have deliberately removed a lot of complexities).

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