diff --git a/util-linux.changes b/util-linux.changes
index da14590..07d907b 100644
--- a/util-linux.changes
+++ b/util-linux.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Thu Aug 25 14:12:15 UTC 2011 - rguenther@novell.com
+
+- BuildIgnore pwdutils.
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Wed Aug 17 10:37:20 UTC 2011 - puzel@novell.com
 
diff --git a/util-linux.spec b/util-linux.spec
index 1b16e95..c2c3f51 100644
--- a/util-linux.spec
+++ b/util-linux.spec
@@ -31,6 +31,12 @@ BuildRequires:  pam-devel
 BuildRequires:  pkg-config
 BuildRequires:  readline-devel
 BuildRequires:  zlib-devel
+# util-linux is a base package and uuidd pre-requiring pwdutils pulls
+# that into the core build cycle.  pwdutils also pulls in the whole
+# ldap stack into it.  Avoid this whole mess which is done only to
+# make the rpm install check of uuidd happy which has support to work without
+# these tools as well
+#!BuildIgnore:  pwdutils
 Version:        2.19.91
 Release:        4
 Url:            http://kernel.org/~kzak/util-linux/