diff --git a/icewm.changes b/icewm.changes
index 0771a28..ab6bedd 100644
--- a/icewm.changes
+++ b/icewm.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Tue Apr 26 11:02:56 UTC 2011 - mmarek@novell.com
+
+- Change the command to apply icewm-preferences.patch to make
+  automatic checks happy.
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Mon Mar 21 10:58:16 UTC 2011 - mmarek@novell.com
 
diff --git a/icewm.spec b/icewm.spec
index 63d63e4..d01a3f6 100644
--- a/icewm.spec
+++ b/icewm.spec
@@ -135,7 +135,8 @@ export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=$PKG_CONFIG_PATH:/opt/gnome/%_lib/pkgconfig
 	    --with-imlib \
 	    --enable-menus-gnome2
 make %{?jobs:-j%jobs}
-patch -p0 -i %_sourcedir/icewm-preferences.patch
+# patch generated lib/preferences file
+patch -p0 -i %{P:99}
 
 %install
 make DESTDIR=$RPM_BUILD_ROOT install install-docs