[Rpm-maint] [rpm-software-management/rpm] Introduction of "rpms.lock.yaml" file (Discussion #2908)

[Tomas Mlcoch]

Originally arches were split, but Liora Milbaum proposed that a single file would be better as it would guaranteed consistency. 
As Liora has background in both Red Hat In-Vehicle Operating System [1] and Bootc [2] who are both potential candidates for usage of the lock files and especially [1] cares very much about consistency and safety. We evaluated this as reasonable.

Building a container for multiple architectures is single use-case, actually a use-case that will be more and more common because x86_64 arch domination is shifting (wide adoption of ARM, rise of RISC) so multi arch builds are must have and consistency between arches is desired. I don't think this is (and ever was a private use-case).

If you want to have separate arches, it can be still easily done, current format doesn't block this in any way. Frankly it also feel more natural to have architecture listed in the file directly rather then encoding it into the filename, where it may get lost if you share just the file content (e.g. sharing by sharing file content via paste-bin or GitHub Gists).

[1] https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/new-standard-red-hat-vehicle-operating-system-modern-and-future-vehicles
[2] https://github.com/osbuild/bootc-image-builder

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