diff --git a/meta/recipes-core/coreutils/coreutils_9.5.bb b/meta/recipes-core/coreutils/coreutils_9.5.bb
index 9a5f836ebe..178dadc3c5 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-core/coreutils/coreutils_9.5.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-core/coreutils/coreutils_9.5.bb
@@ -76,6 +76,11 @@ RDEPENDS:coreutils:class-target += "${@bb.utils.contains('PACKAGECONFIG', 'singl
 # regardless of whether single-binary is in effect.
 RPROVIDES:coreutils += "${@bb.utils.contains('PACKAGECONFIG', 'single-binary', 'coreutils-stdbuf', '', d)}"
 
+# put getlimits into coreutils-getlimits, because other ptest packages such as
+# findutils-ptest may need this command. Note that getlimits is a noinst_PROGRAM
+PACKAGE_BEFORE_PN:class-target += "${PN}-getlimits"
+FILES:${PN}-getlimits = "${bindir}/getlimits"
+
 # Let aclocal use the relative path for the m4 file rather than the
 # absolute since coreutils has a lot of m4 files, otherwise there might
 # be an "Argument list too long" error when it is built in a long/deep
@@ -109,6 +114,9 @@ do_install:append() {
 	# in update-alternatives to fail, therefore use lbracket - the name used
 	# for the actual source file.
 	mv ${D}${bindir}/[ ${D}${bindir}/lbracket.${BPN}
+
+	# this getlimits noinst_PROGRAM would possibly be needed by other ptest packages
+	install ${B}/src/getlimits ${D}/${bindir}
 }
 
 inherit update-alternatives
@@ -204,7 +212,6 @@ do_install_ptest () {
 
     # Tweak test d_type-check to use python3 instead of python
     sed -i "1s@.*@#!/usr/bin/python3@" ${D}${PTEST_PATH}/tests/d_type-check
-    install ${B}/src/getlimits ${D}/${bindir}
     
     # handle multilib
     sed -i s:@libdir@:${libdir}:g ${D}${PTEST_PATH}/run-ptest
@@ -216,4 +223,4 @@ do_install_ptest:append:libc-musl () {
     sed -i -e '/tests\/dd\/no-allocate.sh/d' ${D}${PTEST_PATH}/Makefile
     sed -i -e '/tests\/split\/line-bytes.sh/d' ${D}${PTEST_PATH}/Makefile
 }
-FILES:${PN}-ptest += "${bindir}/getlimits"
+RDEPENDS:${PN}-ptest += "${PN}-getlimits"