diff --git a/libgphoto2.changes b/libgphoto2.changes
index 6cb2fd4..f4c6446 100644
--- a/libgphoto2.changes
+++ b/libgphoto2.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,11 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Fri Aug  7 07:39:31 UTC 2015 - dimstar@opensuse.org
+
+- Change udev BuildRequires for pkgconfig(udev)
+- use pkg-config --modversion udev instead of querying the package
+  database. udev is often installed as udev-mini in OBS' build env,
+  which the rpm -q udev call could not find.
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Sun Jul  5 21:36:34 UTC 2015 - meissner@suse.com
 
diff --git a/libgphoto2.spec b/libgphoto2.spec
index 9f46bd3..35263d4 100644
--- a/libgphoto2.spec
+++ b/libgphoto2.spec
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@
 #
 
 
-%if %( echo `rpm -q --queryformat %%{version} udev` ) > 190
+%if %( pkg-config --modversion udev ) > 190
 %define _udevrulesdir /usr/lib/udev/rules.d
 %else
 %define _udevrulesdir /lib/udev/rules.d
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ BuildRequires:  libusb-1_0-devel
 BuildRequires:  libxml2-devel
 BuildRequires:  lockdev-devel
 BuildRequires:  pkg-config
-BuildRequires:  udev
+BuildRequires:  pkgconfig(udev)
 %if 0%{?suse_version} > 1230
 BuildRequires:  systemd-rpm-macros
 %endif