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Many packages provided by coreutils in RHEL 8 are missing in RHEL 9

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      What were you trying to do that didn't work?

      dnf provides  does not show me which package has the three utilities textutils, sh-utils and fileutils

      What is the impact of this issue to you?

      coreutils, coreutils-single don't provide these tools required by IBM spectrumscaler client that customer uses.

      Please provide the package NVR for which the bug is seen:

      coreutils-<any>.el9.x86_64

      How reproducible is this bug?:

      100%

      Steps to reproduce

      1. Run `dnf provides fileutils` on RHEL9 
      2. Run `dnf provides fileutils` on RHEL8

      Expected results

       It should find the command in RHEL 9  as it was finding in RHEL 8.

      OR

      If the components are removed intentionally then we should have this change documented in Consideration document

      Actual results

      RHEL 9

      1. dnf provides fileutils
        Updating Subscription Management repositories.
        Last metadata expiration check: 15:16:50 ago on Thursday 06 February 2025 12:31:00 AM.
        Error: No matches found. If searching for a file, try specifying the full path or using a wildcard prefix ("*/") at the beginning.

      RHEL 8

      1. dnf provides fileutils
        Updating Subscription Management repositories.
        Last metadata expiration check: 2:17:30 ago on Thursday 06 February 2025 02:59:27 AM EST.
        coreutils-8.30-6.el8.x86_64 : A set of basic GNU tools commonly used in shell scripts
        Repo       : rhel-8-for-x86_64-baseos-rpms
        Matched from:
        Provide   : fileutils = 8.30-6.el8

              rh-ee-lzaoral Lukáš Zaoral
              rhn-support-plawate Pranav Lawate
              Lukáš Zaoral Lukáš Zaoral
              Radka Brychtova Radka Brychtova
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