diff --git a/e2fsprogs.changes b/e2fsprogs.changes
index 01140db..10da6ef 100644
--- a/e2fsprogs.changes
+++ b/e2fsprogs.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Wed Jun 30 16:11:36 UTC 2010 - jengelh@medozas.de
+
+- Do package libext2fs.a (BuildRequired for silo) on SPARC
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Mon Jun 28 06:38:35 UTC 2010 - jengelh@medozas.de
 
diff --git a/e2fsprogs.spec b/e2fsprogs.spec
index c22002a..2e485c2 100644
--- a/e2fsprogs.spec
+++ b/e2fsprogs.spec
@@ -147,7 +147,11 @@ rm -f $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/sbin/mkfs.ext4dev
 rm -f $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/sbin/fsck.ext4dev
 rm -f $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/usr/share/man/man8/mkfs.ext4dev.8*
 rm -f $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/usr/share/man/man8/fsck.ext4dev.8*
+%ifarch %sparc
+rm -v %{buildroot}%{_libdir}/lib{com,e2p,ss}*.a
+%else
 rm -v %{buildroot}%{_libdir}/*.a
+%endif
 
 %clean
 rm -rf $RPM_BUILD_ROOT
@@ -213,6 +217,9 @@ rm -rf $RPM_BUILD_ROOT
 %files -n libext2fs-devel
 %defattr(-, root, root)
 %{_libdir}/libext2fs.so
+%ifarch %sparc
+%{_libdir}/libext2fs.a
+%endif
 %{_libdir}/libe2p.so
 /usr/include/ext2fs
 /usr/include/e2p