diff --git a/_service b/_service
deleted file mode 100644
index 8f54925..0000000
--- a/_service
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,12 +0,0 @@
-<services>
-  <service name="download_url">
-    <param name="protocol">ftp</param>
-    <param name="host">ftp.csx.cam.ac.uk</param>
-    <param name="path">/pub/software/programming/pcre/pcre-8.12.tar.bz2</param>
-  </service>
-  <service name="verify_file">
-    <param name="file">_service:download_url:pcre-8.12.tar.bz2</param>
-    <param name="verifier">sha256</param>
-    <param name="checksum">c63070d461edc451ec9457f2324e152a531e907d5c5d2d8f8121e725acd1aeec</param>
-  </service>
-</services>
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/_service:download_url:pcre-8.12.tar.bz2 b/pcre-8.12.tar.bz2
similarity index 100%
rename from _service:download_url:pcre-8.12.tar.bz2
rename to pcre-8.12.tar.bz2
diff --git a/pcre.changes b/pcre.changes
index cc0f123..6bcb038 100644
--- a/pcre.changes
+++ b/pcre.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Mon Sep 19 15:15:41 UTC 2011 - coolo@suse.com
+
+- remove fragile _service 
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Wed Mar  9 14:20:37 UTC 2011 - coolo@novell.com
 
diff --git a/pcre.spec b/pcre.spec
index 733f50c..0a1a920 100644
--- a/pcre.spec
+++ b/pcre.spec
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ Obsoletes:      pcre-64bit
 %endif
 #
 Url:            ftp://ftp.csx.cam.ac.uk/pub/software/programming/pcre/
-Source:         %name-%version.tar.bz2
+Source:         ftp://ftp.csx.cam.ac.uk/pub/software/programming/pcre/%name-%version.tar.bz2
 Source2:        baselibs.conf
 BuildRoot:      %{_tmppath}/%{name}-%{version}-build
 Patch:          pcre-visibility.patch