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Description of problem:

There is a circular dependency between the coreutils and util-linux packages which seems to mean that they can be installed in the wrong order. When util-linux is installed first the post-install script for that package fails due to a lack of touch, chown, chmod and ln commands.

util-linux has:

Requires(post): coreutils

coreutils has:

Requires: util-linux >= 2.22.1-3

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

coreutils 8.22-11.el7
util-linux 2.23.2-16.el7

How reproducible:

I've only seen this when using the --installroot option for yum to create installs in alternative locations but I don't see any reason why this wouldn't affect normal systems as well.

Requirement for util-linux is there to prevent potential loss of su/runuser utilities. We may remove it in RHEL 7, as there this can't happen for sure.

(In reply to Ondrej Vasik from comment #2)
> Requirement for util-linux is there to prevent potential loss of su/runuser
> utilities. We may remove it in RHEL 7, as there this can't happen for sure.

Yep, having read the specfile I could see why it had originally been added. It still potentially breaks the correct ordering of installs though so it would be good if there could be a better solution.

Thanks,

Stephen

Since the problem described in this bug report should be
resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a
resolution of ERRATA.

For information on the advisory, and where to find the updated
files, follow the link below.

If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report.

https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2015-2160.html