diff --git a/sys-apps/coreutils/coreutils-8.24.recipe b/sys-apps/coreutils/coreutils-8.24.recipe
index b26c75071..f10a78709 100644
--- a/sys-apps/coreutils/coreutils-8.24.recipe
+++ b/sys-apps/coreutils/coreutils-8.24.recipe
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ uptime users vdir wc who whoami yes
 HOMEPAGE="http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils"
 COPYRIGHT="1994-2013 Free Software Foundation, Inc."
 LICENSE="GNU GPL v3"
-REVISION="1"
+REVISION="2"
 SOURCE_URI="http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/coreutils/coreutils-$portVersion.tar.xz"
 CHECKSUM_SHA256="a2d75286a4b9ef3a13039c2da3868a61be4ee9f17d8ae380a35a97e506972170"
 PATCHES="
@@ -128,6 +128,7 @@ PROVIDES="
 	cmd:unexpand = $portVersion compat >= 8
 	cmd:uniq = $portVersion compat >= 8
 	cmd:unlink = $portVersion compat >= 8
+	cmd:uptime = $portVersion compat >= 8
 	cmd:vdir = $portVersion compat >= 8
 	cmd:wc = $portVersion compat >= 8
 	cmd:whoami = $portVersion compat >= 8
@@ -243,6 +244,7 @@ defineDebugInfoPackage coreutils \
 	$binDir/unexpand \
 	$binDir/uniq \
 	$binDir/unlink \
+	$binDir/uptime \
 	$binDir/vdir \
 	$binDir/wc \
 	$binDir/whoami \
@@ -258,7 +260,7 @@ BUILD()
 	FORCE_UNSAFE_CONFIGURE=1 runConfigure ./configure \
 		--without-included-regex \
 		--disable-rpath --with-gnu-ld \
-		--enable-no-install-program=df,uptime \
+		--enable-no-install-program=df,nice \
 		--enable-install-program=hostname
 	touch doc/*.info
 	make $jobArgs
diff --git a/sys-apps/coreutils/coreutils-8.29.recipe b/sys-apps/coreutils/coreutils-8.29.recipe
index a83106ae6..250bec609 100644
--- a/sys-apps/coreutils/coreutils-8.29.recipe
+++ b/sys-apps/coreutils/coreutils-8.29.recipe
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ uptime users vdir wc who whoami yes"
 HOMEPAGE="https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/"
 COPYRIGHT="1994-2017 Free Software Foundation, Inc."
 LICENSE="GNU GPL v3"
-REVISION="1"
+REVISION="2"
 SOURCE_URI="https://ftpmirror.gnu.org/coreutils/coreutils-$portVersion.tar.xz
 	https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/coreutils/coreutils-$portVersion.tar.xz"
 CHECKSUM_SHA256="92d0fa1c311cacefa89853bdb53c62f4110cdfda3820346b59cbd098f40f955e"
@@ -123,6 +123,7 @@ PROVIDES="
 	cmd:unexpand = $binVersionCompat
 	cmd:uniq = $binVersionCompat
 	cmd:unlink = $binVersionCompat
+	cmd:uptime = $binVersionCompat
 	cmd:vdir = $binVersionCompat
 	cmd:wc = $binVersionCompat
 	cmd:whoami = $binVersionCompat
@@ -240,6 +241,7 @@ defineDebugInfoPackage coreutils \
 	$binDir/unexpand \
 	$binDir/uniq \
 	$binDir/unlink \
+	$binDir/uptime \
 	$binDir/vdir \
 	$binDir/wc \
 	$binDir/whoami \
@@ -255,7 +257,7 @@ BUILD()
 	FORCE_UNSAFE_CONFIGURE=1 runConfigure ./configure \
 		--without-included-regex \
 		--disable-rpath --with-gnu-ld \
-		--enable-no-install-program=df,uptime \
+		--enable-no-install-program=df \
 		--enable-install-program=hostname
 	touch doc/*.info
 	make $jobArgs
diff --git a/sys-apps/coreutils/patches/coreutils-8.29.patchset b/sys-apps/coreutils/patches/coreutils-8.29.patchset
index c61085d55..b7b4ce742 100644
--- a/sys-apps/coreutils/patches/coreutils-8.29.patchset
+++ b/sys-apps/coreutils/patches/coreutils-8.29.patchset
@@ -139,7 +139,7 @@ index 0e0e0c5..60edfa5 100644
 From c7af057601c8fa8f0dd152c10257b44ec132c1f9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
 From: Jerome Duval <jerome.duval@gmail.com>
 Date: Thu, 15 May 2014 20:13:58 +0000
-Subject: don't build hostid, uptime, nice, users, who, dd
+Subject: don't build hostid, nice, users, who
 
 
 diff --git a/Makefile.in b/Makefile.in
@@ -156,14 +156,14 @@ index 60bb1ed..6a2c2df 100644
 +	src/libstdbuf.so$(EXEEXT) \
  	src/stdbuf$(EXEEXT) src/stty$(EXEEXT) src/timeout$(EXEEXT) \
 -	src/uptime$(EXEEXT) src/users$(EXEEXT) src/who$(EXEEXT)
-+	src/users$(EXEEXT) src/who$(EXEEXT)
++	src/uptime$(EXEEXT) src/users$(EXEEXT) src/who$(EXEEXT)
  am__EXEEXT_3 = src/[$(EXEEXT) src/b2sum$(EXEEXT) src/base64$(EXEEXT) \
  	src/base32$(EXEEXT) src/basename$(EXEEXT) src/cat$(EXEEXT) \
  	src/chcon$(EXEEXT) src/chgrp$(EXEEXT) src/chmod$(EXEEXT) \
  	src/chown$(EXEEXT) src/cksum$(EXEEXT) src/comm$(EXEEXT) \
  	src/cp$(EXEEXT) src/csplit$(EXEEXT) src/cut$(EXEEXT) \
 -	src/date$(EXEEXT) src/dd$(EXEEXT) src/dir$(EXEEXT) \
-+	src/date$(EXEEXT) src/dir$(EXEEXT) \
++	src/date$(EXEEXT) src/dd$(EXEEXT) src/dir$(EXEEXT) \
  	src/dircolors$(EXEEXT) src/dirname$(EXEEXT) src/du$(EXEEXT) \
  	src/echo$(EXEEXT) src/env$(EXEEXT) src/expand$(EXEEXT) \
  	src/expr$(EXEEXT) src/factor$(EXEEXT) src/false$(EXEEXT) \