diff --git a/ansible.changes b/ansible.changes
index 2cbcf78..509fc4c 100644
--- a/ansible.changes
+++ b/ansible.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Mon Dec  1 18:28:18 UTC 2014 - boris@steki.net
+
+- enable build for older RHEL and SLE distributions
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Thu Nov 27 11:17:53 UTC 2014 - boris@steki.net
 
diff --git a/ansible.spec b/ansible.spec
index c320a88..a09dc43 100644
--- a/ansible.spec
+++ b/ansible.spec
@@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ Recommends:     askpass
 Requires:       python-crypto2.6
 %endif
 # RHEL > 5
-%if 0%{?rhel} && 0%{?rhel} > 5
+%if 0%{?rhel} && 0%{?rhel} >= 5
 BuildRequires:  python-setuptools
 BuildRequires:  python2-devel
 Requires:       PyYAML
@@ -62,7 +62,7 @@ Requires:       python-setuptools
 
 BuildRoot:      %{_tmppath}/%{name}-%{version}-build
 
-%if 0%{?suse_version} && 0%{?suse_version} <= 1110
+%if 0%{?suse_version} && 0%{?suse_version} <= 1110 || 0%{?rhel} == 5
 %{!?python_sitelib: %global python_sitelib %(python -c "from distutils.sysconfig import get_python_lib; print get_python_lib()")}
 %else
 BuildArch:      noarch