@cgwalters: re "speaking of dependency loops and scripts"
yes the current state of affairs with setup and filesystem is insane. Those
packages should be combined, and the dependency that drags in filesystem (or
%setup if you prefer that name) as a prerequisite of glibc should be cast into
stone.
The original intent was to use setup to populate /etc/passwd before filesystem
in a chroot so that unusual ownership (I.e. not root:root) of directories/files
might be undertaken without a warning message from rpm.
The issues involved in getting owners correct in rpm before name services were
functional was worked around by hard wiring certain common lookups in rpm
itself.
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