diff --git a/pacemaker.changes b/pacemaker.changes
index 4f11a1d..478529a 100644
--- a/pacemaker.changes
+++ b/pacemaker.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Thu May  8 11:30:57 CEST 2014 - ro@suse.de
+
+- use _rundir macro 
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Mon May  5 07:42:25 UTC 2014 - ygao@suse.com
 
diff --git a/pacemaker.spec b/pacemaker.spec
index f0d2276..9f9b610 100644
--- a/pacemaker.spec
+++ b/pacemaker.spec
@@ -91,6 +91,10 @@
 
 %define with_regression_tests   0
 
+%if ! %{defined _rundir}
+%define _rundir %{_localstatedir}/run
+%endif
+
 Name:           pacemaker
 Summary:        Scalable High-Availability cluster resource manager
 License:        GPL-2.0+ and LGPL-2.1+
@@ -643,7 +647,7 @@ fi
 %dir %attr (750, %{uname}, %{gname}) %{_var}/lib/pacemaker/cores
 %dir %attr (750, %{uname}, %{gname}) %{_var}/lib/pacemaker/pengine
 %dir %attr (750, %{uname}, %{gname}) %{_var}/lib/pacemaker/blackbox
-%ghost %dir %attr (750, %{uname}, %{gname}) %{_var}/run/crm
+%ghost %dir %attr (750, %{uname}, %{gname}) %{_rundir}/crm
 %dir /usr/lib/ocf
 %dir /usr/lib/ocf/resource.d
 /usr/lib/ocf/resource.d/pacemaker