Bug 6394

Summary: both stat and coreutils provide "stat" but at different filesystem locations
Product: [Runtime] General Runtime Reporter: Paul Gortmaker <paulg>
Component: General RuntimeAssignee: Saul Wold <sgw>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED QA Contact:
Severity: normal    
Priority: Medium    
Version: 1.7   
Target Milestone: 1.7   
Hardware: x86   
OS: Multiple   
Whiteboard:
OS type for building Yocto: --- Type of Regression: ---
Verified: Documentation change: No (bug/feature does not impact docs)

Description Paul Gortmaker 2014-06-03 18:42:09 UTC 
stat provides /usr/bin/stat
coreutils provides  /bin/stat (symlink to /bin/stat.coreutils)

Depending on the path, you don't know what you'll get.

The less featured /usr/bin/stat does not support the "--printf=%T" that coreutils does, and this breaks grub2 ; more specifically grub-mkconfig as it generates files [scripts] which in turn are executed (like /etc/grub.d/10_linux) that contain/use the "--printf" switch.

I think stat rpm probably should be installing in /bin and it probably also needs to depend on !coreutils as well.