diff --git a/permissions.changes b/permissions.changes
index 8acb75a..152722a 100644
--- a/permissions.changes
+++ b/permissions.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,12 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Thu Oct  3 12:38:09 UTC 2019 - Tomáš Chvátal <tchvatal@suse.com>
+
+- Add || exit 0 on the scriptlet as it can actually fail in
+  rootless containers with podman. This makes sure the zypper
+  does not abort the container creation.
+  * the actual error looks like:
+    /dev/zero: chown: Operation not permitted
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Fri Sep 13 11:19:42 UTC 2019 - jsegitz@suse.de
 
diff --git a/permissions.spec b/permissions.spec
index c643ab6..51a7e88 100644
--- a/permissions.spec
+++ b/permissions.spec
@@ -88,7 +88,7 @@ The actual permissions configuration files, /etc/permission.*.
 %post config
 %{fillup_only -n security}
 # apply all potentially changed permissions
-%{_bindir}/chkstat --system
+%{_bindir}/chkstat --system || exit 0
 
 %package -n chkstat
 Summary:        SUSE Linux Default Permissions tool