diff --git a/subversion.spec b/subversion.spec
index e02d8a7..1204bb9 100644
--- a/subversion.spec
+++ b/subversion.spec
@@ -9,6 +9,12 @@
 
 %define perl_vendorarch %(eval "`%{__perl} -V:installvendorarch`"; echo $installvendorarch)
 
+%if 0%{?fedora} < 18
+%define dbdevel db4-devel
+%else
+%define dbdevel libdb-devel
+%endif
+
 %{!?python_sitearch: %define python_sitearch %(%{__python} -c "from distutils.sysconfig import get_python_lib; print get_python_lib(1)")}
 
 %{!?_httpd_apxs: %{expand: %%global _httpd_apxs %%{_sbindir}/apxs}}
@@ -20,7 +26,7 @@
 Summary: A Modern Concurrent Version Control System
 Name: subversion
 Version: 1.7.4
-Release: 4%{?dist}
+Release: 5%{?dist}
 License: ASL 2.0
 Group: Development/Tools
 URL: http://subversion.apache.org/
@@ -40,7 +46,7 @@ Patch5: subversion-1.7.4-hashorder.patch
 Patch6: subversion-1.7.4-httpd24.patch
 Patch7: subversion-1.7.4-kwallet2.patch
 BuildRequires: autoconf, libtool, python, python-devel, texinfo, which
-BuildRequires: db4-devel >= 4.1.25, swig >= 1.3.24, gettext
+BuildRequires: %{dbdevel} >= 4.1.25, swig >= 1.3.24, gettext
 BuildRequires: apr-devel >= 1.3.0, apr-util-devel >= 1.3.0
 BuildRequires: neon-devel >= 0:0.24.7-1, cyrus-sasl-devel
 BuildRequires: sqlite-devel >= 3.4.0, file-devel, systemd-units
@@ -473,6 +479,9 @@ fi
 %endif
 
 %changelog
+* Mon Apr 23 2012 Joe Orton <jorton@redhat.com> - 1.7.4-5
+- switch to libdb-devel (#814090)
+
 * Thu Apr 19 2012 Joe Orton <jorton@redhat.com> - 1.7.4-4
 - adapt for conf.modules.d with httpd 2.4
 - add possible workaround for kwallet crasher (#810861)