diff --git a/rpm-4.8.0-pythondeps-parallel.patch b/rpm-4.8.0-pythondeps-parallel.patch
index 9f1fb54..c30a254 100644
--- a/rpm-4.8.0-pythondeps-parallel.patch
+++ b/rpm-4.8.0-pythondeps-parallel.patch
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ index 7ccd076..7bf6fec 100755
 +    #    /PATH/OF/BUILDROOT/usr/lib64/pythonMAJOR.MINOR/
 +    # generating (uniqely) lines of the form:
 +    #    python(abi) = MAJOR.MINOR
-+    grep "/usr/lib[^/]*/python.\../*" \
++    grep "/usr/lib[^/]*/python.\../.*" \
 +        | sed -e "s|.*/usr/lib[^/]*/python\(.\..\)/.*|python(abi) = \1|g" \
 +        | sort | uniq
      ;;
diff --git a/rpm.spec b/rpm.spec
index 827ca8c..48aefed 100644
--- a/rpm.spec
+++ b/rpm.spec
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@
 Summary: The RPM package management system
 Name: rpm
 Version: %{rpmver}
-Release: 8%{?dist}
+Release: 9%{?dist}
 Group: System Environment/Base
 Url: http://www.rpm.org/
 Source0: http://rpm.org/releases/testing/%{name}-%{srcver}.tar.bz2
@@ -417,6 +417,9 @@ exit 0
 %doc doc/librpm/html/*
 
 %changelog
+* Fri Feb 05 2010 Panu Matilainen <pmatilai@redhat.com> - 4.8.0-9
+- unbreak python(abi) requires generation (#562906)
+
 * Fri Feb 05 2010 Panu Matilainen <pmatilai@redhat.com> - 4.8.0-8
 - more fixes to postscript provides extractor (#562228)
 - avoid accessing unrelated mount points in disk space checking (#547548)