diff --git a/Containerfile.base b/Containerfile.base
index ef4ac22..689976a 100644
--- a/Containerfile.base
+++ b/Containerfile.base
@@ -9,9 +9,9 @@
 # container image.
 FROM quay.io/fedora/fedora:rawhide as repos
 
-# BOOTSTRAPPING: This can be any image that has rpm-ostree and selinux-policy-targeted.
+# BOOTSTRAPPING: This can be any image that has the following packages.
 FROM quay.io/fedora/fedora:rawhide as builder
-RUN dnf -y install rpm-ostree selinux-policy-targeted
+RUN dnf -y install rpm-ostree selinux-policy-targeted sqlite
 # Copy in our source code.
 COPY . /src
 WORKDIR /src
diff --git a/base/finalize.d/05-rpmdb.sh b/base/finalize.d/05-rpmdb.sh
new file mode 100755
index 0000000..f4eea57
--- /dev/null
+++ b/base/finalize.d/05-rpmdb.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+set -euo pipefail
+# https://github.com/coreos/rpm-ostree/pull/5244
+# 
+sysimage_rpmdb=usr/lib/sysimage/rpm/rpmdb.sqlite
+rpmostree_rpmdb_dir=usr/share/rpm
+rpmostree_rpmdb="${rpmostree_rpmdb_dir}/rpmdb.sqlite"
+rpmostree_base_rpmdb_dir=usr/lib/sysimage/rpm-ostree-base-db
+rpmostree_base_rpmdb="${rpmostree_base_rpmdb_dir}/rpmdb.sqlite"
+pragma='PRAGMA journal_mode=delete;'
+
+# Forcibly delete this because ostree hardlinking the sqlite databases
+# confuses rpm. This will cause rpm-ostree to enter a fallback
+# mode with package layering, but that's OK.
+if test -d "${rpmostree_base_rpmdb_dir}"; then
+    echo "Removing ${rpmostree_base_rpmdb_dir}"
+    rm "${rpmostree_base_rpmdb_dir}" -rf
+fi
+for path in ${sysimage_rpmdb} ${rpmostree_rpmdb}; do
+    if test -f "${path}-shm"; then
+        echo "Executing in ${path}: ${pragma}"
+        sqlite3 "${path}" "${pragma}" >/dev/null
+    fi
+done