diff --git a/0001-meson-allow-oomd-to-be-enabled-even-in-release-mode.patch b/0001-meson-allow-oomd-to-be-enabled-even-in-release-mode.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..04a8e5f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/0001-meson-allow-oomd-to-be-enabled-even-in-release-mode.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,25 @@
+From fe1781d10dd8734af21dbea8c070069829456c03 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: =?UTF-8?q?Zbigniew=20J=C4=99drzejewski-Szmek?= <zbyszek@in.waw.pl>
+Date: Thu, 12 Nov 2020 13:05:05 +0100
+Subject: [PATCH] meson: allow oomd to be enabled even in release mode
+
+A distro (Fedora in particular) may want to enable oomd in a unstable
+branch for testing, even though the package as a whole is compiled in release
+mode. Let's emit a warning but otherwise allow this.
+---
+ meson.build | 2 +-
+ 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
+
+diff --git a/meson.build b/meson.build
+index 7996bc2c65..43e328f5a6 100644
+--- a/meson.build
++++ b/meson.build
+@@ -1419,7 +1419,7 @@ if have == 'auto'
+ else
+         have = have == 'true'
+         if have and get_option('mode') != 'developer'
+-                error('oomd is not available in release mode (yet)')
++                warning('oomd is not ready for release mode (yet)')
+         endif
+ endif
+ conf.set10('ENABLE_OOMD', have)
diff --git a/systemd.spec b/systemd.spec
index 0677913..0d96e79 100644
--- a/systemd.spec
+++ b/systemd.spec
@@ -71,6 +71,8 @@ GIT_DIR=../../src/systemd/.git git diffab -M v233..master@{2017-06-15} -- hwdb/[
 # https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1738828
 Patch0001:      use-bfq-scheduler.patch
 
+Patch0002:      0001-meson-allow-oomd-to-be-enabled-even-in-release-mode.patch
+
 Patch0009:      https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/17050/commits/f58b96d3e8d1cb0dd3666bc74fa673918b586612.patch
 
 %ifarch %{ix86} x86_64 aarch64
@@ -446,6 +448,7 @@ CONFIGURE_OPTS=(
         # https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1867830
         -Ddefault-mdns=no
         -Ddefault-llmnr=resolve
+        -Doomd=true
 )
 
 %meson "${CONFIGURE_OPTS[@]}"
@@ -892,7 +895,6 @@ getent passwd systemd-network &>/dev/null || useradd -r -u 192 -l -g systemd-net
 - New upstream pre-release. See
   https://github.com/systemd/systemd/blob/v247-rc1/NEWS.
   Many smaller and bigger improvements and features are introduced.
-  Note that systemd-oomd is not built as part of this package.
   (#1885101, #1890632, #1879216)
 
   A backwards-incompatible change affects PCI network devices which
@@ -903,6 +905,9 @@ getent passwd systemd-network &>/dev/null || useradd -r -u 192 -l -g systemd-net
   causes the net naming scheme to be changed to "v247". To restore
   previous behaviour, specify net.naming-scheme=v245.
 
+  systemd-oomd is built, but should not be considered "production
+  ready" at this point. Testing and bug reports are welcome.
+
 * Wed Sep 30 2020 Dusty Mabe <dusty@dustymabe.com> - 246.6-3
 - Try to make files in subpackages (especially the networkd subpackage)
   more appropriate.