diff --git a/sssd.changes b/sssd.changes
index 427bef7..76e0e13 100644
--- a/sssd.changes
+++ b/sssd.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Wed Mar 30 09:47:23 UTC 2011 - rhafer@suse.de
+
+- Should build in SLE-11-SP1 now
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Tue Mar 29 13:23:57 UTC 2011 - rhafer@suse.de
 
diff --git a/sssd.spec b/sssd.spec
index f96fa37..2aa5ddc 100644
--- a/sssd.spec
+++ b/sssd.spec
@@ -34,6 +34,12 @@ BuildRoot:      %{_tmppath}/%{name}-%{version}-build
 %define pipepath %{sssdstatedir}/pipes
 %define pubconfpath %{sssdstatedir}/pubconf
 
+# SLES11 doesn't know the python_* macros
+%if %suse_version <= 1110
+%define python_sitelib %py_sitedir
+%define python_sitearch %py_sitedir
+%endif
+
 ### Build Dependencies ###
 BuildRequires:  autoconf
 BuildRequires:  automake
@@ -149,6 +155,18 @@ rm -f \
     $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/%{_libdir}/sssd/libsss_ipa.la \
     $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/%{_libdir}/sssd/libsss_simple.la \
     $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/%{_libdir}/krb5/plugins/libkrb5/sssd_krb5_locator_plugin.la
+
+%if %suse_version <= 1110
+# remove some unsupported languages, sssd does not contain
+# translations for these anyway
+rm -rf \
+    $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/usr/share/locale/fa_IR \
+    $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/usr/share/locale/ja_JP \
+    $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/usr/share/locale/lt_LT \
+    $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/usr/share/locale/ta_IN \
+    $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/usr/share/locale/vi_VN
+%endif
+
 %find_lang %{name} --all-name
 
 %clean