diff --git a/policycoreutils.spec b/policycoreutils.spec
index be8dc99..da73e46 100644
--- a/policycoreutils.spec
+++ b/policycoreutils.spec
@@ -6,6 +6,9 @@
 
 %global generatorsdir %{_prefix}/lib/systemd/system-generators
 
+# Disable automatic compilation of Python files in extra directories
+%global _python_bytecompile_extra 0
+
 Summary: SELinux policy core utilities
 Name:    policycoreutils
 Version: 2.8
@@ -195,6 +198,10 @@ find %{buildroot}%{python2_sitelib} %{buildroot}%{python2_sitearch} \
      %{buildroot}%{_sbindir} %{buildroot}%{_bindir} %{buildroot}%{_datadir} \
      -type f -name '*~' | xargs rm -f
 
+# Manually invoke the python byte compile macro for each path that needs byte
+# compilation.
+%py_byte_compile %{__python3} %{buildroot}%{_datadir}/system-config-selinux
+
 %find_lang %{name}
 
 %package python-utils
@@ -240,7 +247,9 @@ an SELinux environment.
 %{_datadir}/dbus-1/system-services/org.selinux.service
 %{_datadir}/polkit-1/actions/org.selinux.policy
 %{_datadir}/polkit-1/actions/org.selinux.config.policy
-%{_datadir}/system-config-selinux/selinux_server.py*
+%{_datadir}/system-config-selinux/selinux_server.py
+%dir %{_datadir}/system-config-selinux/__pycache__
+%{_datadir}/system-config-selinux/__pycache__/selinux_server.*
 
 %package -n python3-policycoreutils
 %{?python_provide:%python_provide python3-policycoreutils}
@@ -399,11 +408,16 @@ system-config-selinux is a utility for managing the SELinux environment
 %{_datadir}/icons/hicolor/24x24/apps/system-config-selinux.png
 %{_datadir}/pixmaps/system-config-selinux.png
 %dir %{_datadir}/system-config-selinux
+%dir %{_datadir}/system-config-selinux/__pycache__
 %{_datadir}/system-config-selinux/system-config-selinux.png
-%{_datadir}/system-config-selinux/*Page.py*
-%{_datadir}/system-config-selinux/html_util.py*
-%{_datadir}/system-config-selinux/polgengui.py*
-%{_datadir}/system-config-selinux/system-config-selinux.py*
+%{_datadir}/system-config-selinux/*Page.py
+%{_datadir}/system-config-selinux/__pycache__/*Page.*
+%{_datadir}/system-config-selinux/html_util.py
+%{_datadir}/system-config-selinux/__pycache__/html_util.*
+%{_datadir}/system-config-selinux/polgengui.py
+%{_datadir}/system-config-selinux/__pycache__/polgengui.*
+%{_datadir}/system-config-selinux/system-config-selinux.py
+%{_datadir}/system-config-selinux/__pycache__/system-config-selinux.*
 %{_datadir}/system-config-selinux/*.ui
 %{python3_sitelib}/sepolicy/gui.py*
 %{python3_sitelib}/sepolicy/sepolicy.glade