make sure makeinfo is not run (because it is run unconditionally and actually not needed at all) and remove some hacks from the past which are no longer needed

coreutils/coreutils.patch

@@ -229,3 +229,36 @@
      {
        error (0, 0, _("`-%lu' option is obsolete; use `-f %lu'"),
  	     (unsigned long) skip_fields, (unsigned long) skip_fields);
+Index: doc/Makefile.in
+--- doc/Makefile.in.orig	2004-03-11 09:57:59.000000000 +0100
++++ doc/Makefile.in	2004-04-21 15:11:16.000000000 +0200
+@@ -319,29 +319,6 @@
+ 	cd $(top_builddir) && $(MAKE) $(AM_MAKEFLAGS) am--refresh
+ 
+ .texi.info:
+-	restore=: && \
+-	backupdir="$(am__leading_dot)am$$$$" && \
+-	am__cwd=`pwd` && cd $(srcdir) && \
+-	rm -rf $$backupdir && mkdir $$backupdir && \
+-	for f in $@ $@-[0-9] $@-[0-9][0-9] $(@:.info=).i[0-9] $(@:.info=).i[0-9][0-9]; do \
+-	  if test -f $$f; then \
+-	    mv $$f $$backupdir; \
+-	    restore=mv; \
+-	  fi; \
+-	done; \
+-	cd "$$am__cwd"; \
+-	if $(MAKEINFO) $(AM_MAKEINFOFLAGS) $(MAKEINFOFLAGS) -I $(srcdir) \
+-	 -o $@ $<; \
+-	then \
+-	  rc=0; \
+-	  cd $(srcdir); \
+-	else \
+-	  rc=$$?; \
+-	  cd $(srcdir) && \
+-	  $$restore $$backupdir/* `echo "./$@" | sed 's|[^/]*$$||'`; \
+-	fi; \
+-	rm -rf $$backupdir; \
+-	exit $$rc
+ 
+ .texi.dvi:
+ 	TEXINPUTS="$(am__TEXINFO_TEX_DIR)$(PATH_SEPARATOR)$$TEXINPUTS" \

coreutils/coreutils.spec

@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ Class:        BASE
 Group:        Utility
 License:      GPL
 Version:      %{V_release}
-Release:      20040324
+Release:      20040421
 
 #   package options
 %option       with_legacy  no
@@ -90,7 +90,6 @@ AutoReqProv:  no
         -e 's;^\(install-exec-local:\).*;\1;' \
         -e 's;^\(bin_PROGRAMS =\);\1 su;' \
         src/Makefile.in
-    ( cd man && touch nice.1 stat.1 test.1 ls.1 dir.1 vdir.1 ) || exit 1
 
 %build
     CC="%{l_cc}" \
@@ -103,7 +102,6 @@ AutoReqProv:  no
         --prefix=%{l_prefix} \
         --program-prefix=g \
         --disable-nls
-    chmod a+rx config/install-sh
     %{l_make} %{l_mflags -O}
 
 %install