Description of problem:

when using RHEL9 images for jenkins build, there is an error with rpm not able to complete the package install

2024-04-22 07:48:53,424 - atomic_reactor.tasks.binary_container_build - INFO - RPM: warning: Found bdb_ro Packages database while attempting sqlite backend: using bdb_ro backend.
2024-04-22 07:48:53,425 - atomic_reactor.tasks.binary_container_build - INFO - RPM: error: cannot open Packages index using bdb_ro - Operation not permitted (1)
2024-04-22 07:48:53,427 - atomic_reactor.tasks.binary_container_build - INFO - RPM: error: cannot open Packages database in /var/lib/rpm
2024-04-22 07:48:53,427 - atomic_reactor.tasks.binary_container_build - INFO - Error: Could not run transaction. 

Prerequisites (if any, like setup, operators/versions):

Steps to Reproduce

PR: https://gitlab.cee.redhat.com/ocp-tools/jenkins-agent-base/-/merge_requests/222

Jenkins log: https://brewweb.engineering.redhat.com/brew/taskinfo?taskID=60673214

Actual results:

Expected results:

Reproducibility (Always/Intermittent/Only Once):

Always

Acceptance criteria: 

• there should be no error in package install using RHEL9 image

Definition of Done:

Build Details:

Additional info (Such as Logs, Screenshots, etc):

I found bugzilla references to the same issue but the hack mentioned there doesn't seem to resolve the issue:

• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1960991

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