[Rpm-maint] [rpm-software-management/rpm] RFE: container-native rpmdb format (Issue #2005)

[Colin Walters]

cgwalters left a comment (rpm-software-management/rpm#2005)

> Each installed RPM is represented by a numbered file in /var/lib/rpm/jsonzstd,

This should be in the default `%_dbpath` which shouldn't be `/var` except on RHEL <= 9.

> In the same directory lives a "manifest" file which points to each individual package file and stores metadata about the next number in the sequence. 

Is the sequence defined by package installation order for a fresh image? And then subsequent ones use N+1 starting from the last? 

> This comment/fork serves as a proof-of-concept for how this could look, and to demonstrate the usefulness of a backend more optimised for container images.

Yes, thanks for doing that! 

This issue is still relevant; I forgot to do an explicit cross reference but e.g. https://github.com/rpm-software-management/dnf5/issues/1731 would be a *lot* more elegant with this, and that's a not-OCI-container use case.

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