Description of problem:
Upgrading to rh8 from rh7.3 version of rpm fails, althought it looks as if it 
worked (that is, the rpm -U works, but the program doesn't). With the rh8 
version of rpm, I get a ld.so? error as follows:
/usr/lib/rpm/rpmq: relocation error: /usr/lib/librpmdb-4.1.so: undefined 
symbol: poptSaveInt

In trying to sort this out:

 1. I reverted to the original 7.3 version of rpm; this works, but of course 
there are some package-compatibility problems (e.g. up2date). adequate, but 
not desireable.

 2. I fetched the rpm-4.1 tar file, compiled it and installed it (using 
prefix=/usr). The result was indistinguishable from the pre-packaged version.

 3. I (in desperation) decided to try the rawhide version of rpm. This 
required upgrading of glibc, which I checked and decided ought to be safe-ish. 
Might have been wrong there, because although most programs still work, when I 
try to use rpm-4.1 to upgrade something (e.g. to rpm-4.2) I get the 
error: "cannot cope with TLS data". I note that glibc is now installed 
in /lib/tls -- what is tls (other than transport-level-security, which doesn't 
make sense to me in this context).

Note that in most cases, the rpm option to upgrade a package works; it's --
erase, --query that fail. However, (3) above has resulted in an rpm that 
cannot upgrade, although it does manage the initial check.

Hoping you can help :-)

There is a thought in my mind that it is an rpmdb problem, not strictly rpm, 
but I am confused...


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
glibc 2.2, glibc 2.3, rpm-4.0.4, rpm-4.1, rpm-4.2

How reproducible:
Very

Steps to Reproduce:
1. rpm -q rpm
    
Actual results:
/usr/lib/rpm/rpmq: relocation error: /usr/lib/librpmdb-4.1.so: undefined 
symbol: poptSaveInt

Expected results:
rpm-4.1