diff --git a/file.changes b/file.changes
index 93d8f18..7b768a2 100644
--- a/file.changes
+++ b/file.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Thu Oct 30 12:34:56 CET 2008 - olh@suse.de
+
+- obsolete old -XXbit packages (bnc#437293)
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Tue Aug 19 18:51:46 CEST 2008 - ro@suse.de
 
diff --git a/file.spec b/file.spec
index 63ef10b..66d2dc9 100644
--- a/file.spec
+++ b/file.spec
@@ -24,9 +24,17 @@ Url:            http://www.darwinsys.com/file/
 License:        Other uncritical OpenSource License
 Group:          Productivity/File utilities
 AutoReqProv:    on
+# bug437293
+%ifarch ppc64
+Obsoletes:      file-64bit
+%endif
+%ifarch  %ix86 ppc
+Obsoletes:      file-32bit
+%endif
+#
 # Set Version also in python-magic.spec
 Version:        4.24
-Release:        31
+Release:        41
 Summary:        A Tool to Determine File Types
 Source:         ftp://ftp.astron.com/pub/file/file-%{version}.tar.bz2
 Patch:          file-%{version}.dif
@@ -175,6 +183,8 @@ unset LD_LIBRARY_PATH
 %attr(644,root,root) %{_mandir}/man3/libmagic.3.gz
 
 %changelog
+* Thu Oct 30 2008 olh@suse.de
+- obsolete old -XXbit packages (bnc#437293)
 * Tue Aug 19 2008 ro@suse.de
 - fix detection for java bytecode
 * Tue May 06 2008 aj@suse.de
@@ -338,7 +348,7 @@ unset LD_LIBRARY_PATH
 - use BuildRoot
 * Tue Mar 04 2003 werner@suse.de
 - Fix buffer overflow in elf detection
-* Wed Dec 18 2002 olh@suse.de
+* Tue Dec 17 2002 olh@suse.de
 - use RPM_BUILD_ROOT, not BUILD_ROOT in testsuite
 * Mon Nov 11 2002 ro@suse.de
 - fix deprecated multiline string literal (from longopt patch)
@@ -421,7 +431,7 @@ unset LD_LIBRARY_PATH
 * Tue May 27 1997 florian@suse.de
 - add some additional entries from mgetty/vgetty
 - add additional entries for CLISP and GNU gettext from Bruno Haible
-* Thu Jan 23 1997 florian@suse.de
+* Wed Jan 22 1997 florian@suse.de
 - update to version 3.22
 * Thu Jan 02 1997 florian@suse.de
 - recognise german umlauts as text: dirty hack, but also call "setlocale"
diff --git a/python-magic.spec b/python-magic.spec
index f43707a..7040323 100644
--- a/python-magic.spec
+++ b/python-magic.spec
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ License:        Other uncritical OpenSource License
 Group:          Development/Languages/Python
 AutoReqProv:    on
 Version:        4.24
-Release:        38
+Release:        49
 Summary:        Python module to use libmagic
 %py_requires
 Source99:       file.spec