diff --git a/daps.changes b/daps.changes
index 7be3677..21669c7 100644
--- a/daps.changes
+++ b/daps.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Tue Oct 23 10:07:12 UTC 2018 - sknorr@suse.com
+
+- Workaround to make it possible to build things
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Fri Oct 19 14:02:11 UTC 2018 - rick.salevsky@suse.com
 
diff --git a/daps.spec b/daps.spec
index ce3436d..bb2fdaf 100644
--- a/daps.spec
+++ b/daps.spec
@@ -164,6 +164,10 @@ sed -i '1 s|/usr/bin/env python|/usr/bin/python|' libexec/daps-xmlwellformed
 %install
 make install DESTDIR=$RPM_BUILD_ROOT
 
+# FIXME: temporary workaround for buildstep that is not executed... start workaround vvv
+sed -i 's_\(xml:base\)="[^"]*"_\1="file:///usr/share/daps/daps-xslt/"_g' $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/%{_sysconfdir}/xml/catalog.d/%{name}.xml
+# ^^^ end workaround
+
 # create symlinks:
 %fdupes -s $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/%{_datadir}