## Why
Publishing RPMs to GitHub releases is common, but consuming them with `dnf` requires repodata GitHub does not provide, and mirroring every package into a local repo wastes storage and staleness-tracking on artifacts that already have a durable home. This exposes GitHub releases as a first-class RPM source that synthesizes repodata on the fly and **never precaches the packages**.
## What
Add a `github_rpm` remote package type backed by a metadata-only provider.
- Introduce a `RemoteServer` interception hook (the remote-side analog of `LocalIndexer`): `handleProxy` lets a provider fully answer a request before the byte-proxy engine, passing the request-derived proxy base URL and the DB as a `RemoteMetadataStore`.
- Scan a repo's releases via the GitHub API (`base_url` = the releases API root) for `.rpm` assets, filtered by the remote's `patterns` (regex on asset filename), and reuse the existing local-rpm repodata generators to emit `repomd.xml`/`primary`/`filelists`/`other`.
- Derive per-asset metadata without precaching: fetch only the RPM header via a ranged GET (retrying with a larger range on a truncated-header parse) for NEVRA, requires/provides/conflicts/obsoletes and files; take the sha256 from the GitHub asset `digest` when present, else compute it once by streaming.
- Cache derived metadata in `rpm_metadata` keyed by asset path; re-scan no more often than `mutable_ttl`, pruning assets that disappear upstream.
- Serve each package's `<location>` as the github-relative download path so the client comes back to this remote, which **302-redirects** to the `releases_remote` (an existing generic github.com remote) that streams the actual bytes.
Reuse the existing `releases_remote` field as the redirect target — it already carries exactly this "downloads served by remote X" semantic end to end, so no new schema/model field is needed.
Extend the shared RPM metadata model with conflicts/obsoletes (JSONB columns, added idempotently) so both local and `github_rpm` repodata resolve upgrades and conflicts; the local upload path records them too.
## No-precache mechanics
- **Dependency metadata**: always from the ranged header fetch (header precedes payload; `rpm.Read` stops at the payload boundary), giving `dnf` full resolution. Default range 1 MiB, doubling to 16 MiB.
- **Checksum**: prefer the GitHub asset `digest` (no download); fall back to a one-time streamed sha256 only when absent. Header-only "minimal mode" (no deps) is rejected as a default because `dnf` needs accurate provides/requires and a correct pkgid checksum to install.
## Tests
Header-range parsing incl. the retry loop, digest-vs-computed checksum selection, repodata synthesis with the redirect-able `<location href>`, the 302 redirect path (and the guard when `releases_remote` is unset), asset pattern filtering, and stale-asset pruning. `go build`/`vet`/`test` green; pre-commit clean.
## Follow-ups
- `github_apk` / `github_deb` metadata-only remotes (same pattern; not in this PR).
- Terraform provider support for `artifactapi_remote_github_rpm` ships as a separate PR against `terraform-provider-artifactapi` (depends on this API surface).
Reviewed-on: #107
Co-authored-by: Ben Vincent <ben@unkin.net>
Co-committed-by: Ben Vincent <ben@unkin.net>
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