yum, %post errors, mock failures

Folks,

I'm running into the funness that documented here:

    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=433579

and discussed on the CentOS list: 

    http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/2009-April/074912.html

In building a chroot, pam is installed before coreutils causing its
%post script to fail, yum to report an error code to mock, and mock
refusing to continue with the build.  In fact, my case exactly matches
the CentOS thread just in RHEL 5.3.

I hesitate to patch and push a custom pam package because of a 
backwards dependency loop.  Would anyone know how to jiggle yum or mock
just enough to ignore or get the loop in the right order for my build
machines?

This is yum 3.2.19.

Jack Neely
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