diff --git a/ca-certificates.changes b/ca-certificates.changes
index a4e7293..7cc0a35 100644
--- a/ca-certificates.changes
+++ b/ca-certificates.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Mon Oct 24 11:57:53 UTC 2011 - coolo@suse.com
+
+- require coreutils for %post script
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Mon Jun 20 12:49:52 UTC 2011 - lnussel@suse.de
 
diff --git a/ca-certificates.spec b/ca-certificates.spec
index 30b1fdf..60ea5ec 100644
--- a/ca-certificates.spec
+++ b/ca-certificates.spec
@@ -45,6 +45,8 @@ BuildRoot:      %{_tmppath}/%{name}-%{version}-build
 Url:            http://gitorious.org/opensuse/ca-certificates
 #
 Requires:       openssl
+# needed for %post
+Requires:       coreutils
 Recommends:     ca-certificates-mozilla
 # we need to obsolete openssl-certs to make sure it's files are
 # gone when a package providing actual certificates gets