Requesting some updates with sos.

Currently we have a plugin (rpm.rpmdb) which is off by default and only copies all of /var/lib/rpm into the sosreport.

My suggestions for improvement are:

1. When rpm/yum plugin fails or timeout's, automatically grab the rpm database
1b. Decrease the timeout for rpm/yum plugins failing

2. The rpmdb plugin should first attempt to tar the entire database for a more usable format for engineers

RHEL 7 and lower

1. tar cjf rpm_db-$(hostname).tar.bz2 /var/lib/ {rpm,yum}

RHEL 8 and higher

1. tar cJhf rpm_db-$(hostname).tar.xz /var/lib/ {rpm,dnf}

   /etc/

   {dnf*,os-release}

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  If there is any concern over size I would secondarily request we make this generate the tar outside of the sos
  Example:
  sosreport > detects rpm issues > generates /var/tmp/rpmdb.tar.xz

Or just have it inside the rpm database.