What were you trying to do that didn't work?

Use GDAL raster drivers (GTiff, PNG, JPEG) in CentOS Stream 9 / Rocky Linux 9.7 after the GDAL upgrade from 3.4.3 to 3.10.3.

What is the impact of this issue to you?

Any software relying on GDAL cannot read or write common raster formats:
  - QGIS fails to open GeoTIFF files
  - R packages (terra, raster, sf) fail with "invalid driver"
  - Python (rasterio, GDAL bindings) cannot create outputs
  - GDAL CLI tools (gdal_translate, gdalwarp) cannot write TIFF/PNG/JPEG

  This breaks core geospatial workflows for all CentOS Stream 9 / RHEL 9 users.

Please provide the package NVR for which the bug is seen:

 gdal-3.10.3-3.el9.x86_64
  gdal-libs-3.10.3-3.el9.x86_64

How reproducible is this bug?:

  100% reproducible on any CentOS Stream 9 / Rocky 9.7 system with gdal-libs-3.10.3

Steps to reproduce

1. Install gdal package: dnf install gdal
2.  List available formats: gdalinfo --formats
3. Observe only VRT and MEM drivers are available

Expected results

152 drivers available including GTiff, PNG, JPEG (as in gdal-3.4.3-3.el9)  

  $ gdalinfo --formats | wc -l
  152
  $ gdalinfo --formats | grep -E 'GTiff|PNG|JPEG'
    GTiff -raster- (rw+vs): GeoTIFF
    PNG -raster- (rwv): Portable Network Graphics
    JPEG -raster- (rwv): JPEG JFIF
  $ nm -D /usr/lib64/libgdal.so.30 | grep GDALRegister_ | wc -l
  151  

Actual results

 Only 2 drivers available (VRT, MEM). GTiff, PNG, JPEG and 149 other drivers are missing.

  $ gdalinfo --formats
  Supported Formats:
    VRT -raster,multidimensional raster- (rw+v): Virtual Raster
    MEM -raster,multidimensional raster- (rw+): In Memory Raster
  $ ls -la /usr/lib64/gdalplugins/
  drivers.ini    # Config file lists GTiff etc, but no .so plugin files
  $ nm -D /usr/lib64/libgdal.so.36 | grep GDALRegister_
  GDALRegister_MEM
  GDALRegister_VRT

Root Cause

  The gdal-3.10.3 package was built with CMake flags that disable built-in drivers:

  -DGDAL_USE_GEOTIFF=OFF
  -DGDAL_USE_GEOTIFF_INTERNAL=OFF
  -DGDAL_BUILD_OPTIONAL_DRIVERS=OFF
  -DOGR_BUILD_OPTIONAL_DRIVERS=OFF

This moves drivers to plugin mode, but no plugin RPMs are shipped. The drivers.ini file exists but the corresponding gdal_*.so plugin files do not.

According to upstream GDAL documentation, GTiff is a "built-in default driver" that should always be available: https://gdal.org/en/stable/drivers/raster/gtiff.html