diff --git a/man.changes b/man.changes
index b9dcd96..aa42380 100644
--- a/man.changes
+++ b/man.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Wed Nov 29 12:44:41 UTC 2017 - werner@suse.de
+
+- Make /var/ache/man a real directory as in system-user-man the
+  directory is gone
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Thu Nov 23 13:40:41 UTC 2017 - rbrown@suse.com
 
diff --git a/man.spec b/man.spec
index ac6bf42..a7d5a83 100644
--- a/man.spec
+++ b/man.spec
@@ -195,7 +195,6 @@ fi
 %if %suse_version <= 1030
     export MKDIR_P="mkdir -p"
 %endif
-    rm -rf   %{buildroot}%{_localstatedir}/cache/man
     mkdir -p %{buildroot}%{_datadir}/doc/packages/man
     mkdir -p %{buildroot}%{_libexecdir}/man-db
     mkdir -p %{buildroot}%{_bindir}
@@ -240,6 +239,7 @@ fi
     install -m 0644 %{SOURCE1} %{buildroot}%{_fillupdir}
     install -m 0744 %{SOURCE2} %{buildroot}/etc/cron.daily/suse-do_mandb
     install -m 0744 %{SOURCE3} %{buildroot}/etc/cron.daily/suse-clean_catman
+
 %find_lang man-db --all-name --with-man
 
 %pre
@@ -292,6 +292,7 @@ mandb --quiet --create
 %doc %{_mandir}/man8/*.8.gz
 %dir %{_mandir}/id
 %{_fillupdir}/sysconfig.cron-man
+%dir %verify(not mode group) %attr(0755,man,man) %{_localstatedir}/cache/man/
 %defattr(-,man,man)
 %ghost %{_localstatedir}/cache/man/*