diff --git a/chromium.spec b/chromium.spec
index 895b03d..b7fec5d 100644
--- a/chromium.spec
+++ b/chromium.spec
@@ -110,7 +110,7 @@ BuildRequires:  libicu-devel >= 5.4
 
 Name:		chromium%{chromium_channel}
 Version:	%{majorversion}.0.3071.109
-Release:	3%{?dist}
+Release:	4%{?dist}
 Summary:	A WebKit (Blink) powered web browser
 Url:		http://www.chromium.org/Home
 License:	BSD and LGPLv2+ and ASL 2.0 and IJG and MIT and GPLv2+ and ISC and OpenSSL and (MPLv1.1 or GPLv2 or LGPLv2)
@@ -1096,7 +1096,8 @@ done
 mkdir -p %{buildroot}%{_sysconfdir}/opt/chrome/native-messaging-hosts
 pushd %{buildroot}%{_sysconfdir}/opt/chrome/native-messaging-hosts
 for i in ../../../chromium/native-messaging-hosts/*; do
-	ln -s $i .
+# rpm gets unhappy when we symlink here
+	cp -a $i .
 done
 popd
 
@@ -1642,6 +1643,10 @@ getent group chrome-remote-desktop >/dev/null || groupadd -r chrome-remote-deskt
 %{chromium_path}/chromedriver
 
 %changelog
+* Fri Jun 23 2017 Tom Callaway <spot@fedoraproject.org> 59.0.3071.109-4
+- copy files into /etc/opt/chrome/native-messaging-hosts instead of making symlinks
+  this results in duplicate copies of the same files, but eh. making rpm happy.
+
 * Fri Jun 23 2017 Tom Callaway <spot@fedoraproject.org> 59.0.3071.109-3
 - use pretrans scriptlet to remove symlink on /etc/opt/chrome/native-messaging-hosts
   (it is now a directory)