**Description**
The *attribute marker* in `--verify` mode is only one character long, however
file entries may in fact have multiple attributes. For example, the following
are all valid entries:
```spec
%config %doc /etc/docfile
%config %license /etc/license
%config %ghost /etc/ghost
```
In these cases, the marker will currently show whichever attribute comes first
in the internal `attrFormat` string returned from `rpmFFlagsString()`:
```c
static int verifyHeader( ...
{
[...]
attrFormat = rpmFFlagsString(fileAttrs);
ac = rstreq(attrFormat, "") ? ' ' : attrFormat[0];
[...]
}
```
As a result, the actual marker shown in the output is not well-defined for such
combined file entries. There are two ways to fix this:
1. Define the priority of attributes, e.g. a `g` for `%ghost` is more specific
and so should be shown instead of `c` for `%config`.
2. Add new markers, e.g. as uppercase variants of the existing ones. For
example, a `%ghost` and `%config` entry would show up as a `G`.
**To Reproduce**
Steps to reproduce the behavior:
1. Build a package with the following `%build` and `%files` section:
```spec
%build
mkdir -p %{buildroot}/etc
touch %{buildroot}/etc/docfile
touch %{buildroot}/etc/license
%files
%config %doc /etc/docfile
%config %license /etc/license
%config %ghost /etc/ghost
```
3. Install the built package
4. Create the ghost file manually:
```sh
touch /etc/ghost
```
5. Modify the other files:
```sh
chmod -w /etc/docfile /etc/license
```
6. Verify the package:
```sh
rpm -V <package-name>
```
**Actual output**
```sh
.M....... d /etc/docfile
.M....... c /etc/ghost
.M....... c /etc/license
```
**Expected output**
Variant 1:
```sh
.M....... d /etc/docfile
.M....... g /etc/ghost
.M....... l /etc/license
```
Variant 2:
```sh
.M....... D /etc/docfile
.M....... G /etc/ghost
.M....... L /etc/license
```
**Environment**
- Fedora 39
- RPM 4.19.90 (built from master)
**Additional context**
This was originally filed in Red Hat Jira:
https://issues.redhat.com/browse/RHEL-20649
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